re: Is Stevia a healthy option for sugar?

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YOUR BODY NEEDS SUGAR!

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First of all, calm down.

Obtaining "sugar" is not difficult for the average person. Even broccoli has carbs. It's in a wide variety of healthy food sources.

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YOUR BRAIN RUNS ON SUGAR!

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Indeed. Again. It isn't difficult to obtain enough glucose needed by the body.

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SUGAR IS SO IMPORTANT YOUR BODY HAS SEVERAL WAYS TO MAKE IT FROM THINGS OTHER THAN SUGAR!

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Yeah. Exactly. So, you don't need to seek it out. Even if you eat meat exclusively, the body can obtain glucose through gluconeogenesis.

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FOR frickS SAKE, SUGAR IS NOT POISON!

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In large amounts, it is.

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STEVIA WONDER! You can't see the difference!

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It’s okay to drink it, don’t you worry ‘bout a thing.

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This is such bs. They have actual studies on this stuff. You would have to consume 20+ cans of diet soda per day for aspartame to be toxic for you. It's all about dosage. All you hear now a days is people saying how bad shite is for you with zero context.

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I'll never forget when I went to check out at the small grocery store in my neighborhood, and they had a new cashier who was a ~16-17 year old girl who happened to be very morbidly obese.

When she got to my 12-pack of Diet Coke, she started rambling about Diet Coke and cancer. It took everything in me to politely smile at this underage kid lecturing me over the single can of Diet Coke I have a day.

And it's heartbreaking because you know she was just parroting what her enabling parents must believe, which ironically is probably a direct contributor to her size.

This is great stuff! Baking, sweet tea, coffee.