On the CBS Evening News last night, a story about the death of a beloved dog was highlighted. It seems that this two-year old Lab ingested some chewing gum that contained the artificial sweetener, xylitol.
This sweetener is added to many foods and drinks and is considered "safe" by the FDA for human consumption. However, it is deadly for pets, causing kidney failure. Please, pet owners, read the labels on all the processed, packaged "foods" you buy, including soda.
I personally do not recommend any artificial sweeteners, mostly because they fool your body into thinking that it is getting something sweet that is purely empty calories. It's so much better to free the body from needing to eat sweets. My blog about diet soda and losing weight, written on August 21, 2013, addresses that issue.
Conditioning the body to want something sweet is what has this country's population at nearly catastrophic diabetic levels....we want sugar...we eat lots of sugar...we develop metabolic syndrome...we get diabetes. Eating artificial sugars doesn't diminish the rate of diabetes, it feeds it.
April 11, 2013 I wrote a blog about splenda vs. stevia. If you haven't read it, I recommend you do so; I talk about the topic of artificial sweeteners in great detail...over three thousand people have read this blog topic, so I know many have found it interesting.
Dr. Esther
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