Sweeteners

[YellerDog]

Well, too bad. People used to think smoking was 'for your health!' too.

[A Robot Bit Me]

Things that are all-natural: Rattlesnakes. Brown Recluses. Bees. Sharks. Large Rocks. Various Poisons. Sun Burns.

"All Natural" is clever marketing which means nothing.

Pretty much. It's read the label or gtfo until they pass some long-overdue legislation on this.

[PaCrappa]

I'm convinced about MSG. Here's one link out of millions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excitotoxicity

And yeller, this is different. Smoke is not one of the basic necessities of life. Food is.

[Grave]

I really hope they someday determine that scientists are actually carcinogenic to mice. That'd fuck everything up pretty nicely.

edit: I still don't understand why people freak out over a tiny bit of MSG but never worry about natural glutamate when there really is no chemical difference minus the salt. Nobody ever flipped out in front of a bowl of pasta claiming the glutamate in the tomato sauce and in the parmesan was going to kill them.

[YellerDog]

Agave syrup. Do it. No bullshit.

[stormy]

Didn't you gain a few pounds? I'm easing off slowly, and allow myself a sugar soda 1-2 times a week. Did you make the ice tea yourself?

Made it myself by throwing a bunch of teabags in a pot of boiling water. After 5 min or so dump that into a pitcher filled with ice and some more cold water. Then refridgerate. You can either disolve the sugar into it when you're brewing the tea or when you pour a glass, but it doesn't disolve as easily after it's already cold. The hardest part is finding a tea you like, then working out the acceptible sugar ratio. I usually go with mint teas.

[burgundy]

BECAUSE YOU'RE GONNA DIE OF SOMETHING

[Schlep]

Yeah, I use Splenda as well. With Bigelow's Vanilla Caramel.

[Vasteel]

I really hope they someday determine that scientists are actually carcinogenic to mice. That'd fuck everything up pretty nicely.

There is no correlation between a substance causing cancer in mice and it having the same effect on humans.

[Grave]

There is no correlation between a substance causing cancer in mice and it having the same effect on humans.

I was just making a joke...

But yes. I don't think any of these things are particularly great for you, but I don't think any of them are nearly as bad as anyone's making them out to be.

Of course, I guess it'd be kind of silly if a smoker was afraid of diet soda giving him cancer.