How do you feel about Stevia?

I found some soda at Whole Foods called Zevia and it's sweetened with Stevia instead of aspartame. It's kind of nice, since I miss Diet Coke, and this is like the natural version.

 

I like the taste too. The best part is that there are no negative health effects or effects on your blood glucose. I have a little bottle of it for adding to tea.

 

it just as bad for you as white table sugar.
more and more respected publications are publishing peer reviewd studies world wide are proving people with blood sugar must advoid it at all cost.

 

Except that it's not a carbohydrate and doesn't raise blood glucose.

 

i like stevia

 

who the fuck is steve?

 

it depresses pancreas function which in turn causes pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas.) pancreatitis in turn, causes dyfuncation of the digestive enzymes secreted from the pancreas which, in turn causes damage to the liver.

no, stevia is not a carbohydrate and as such, does not work in the way of a simple carbohydrate (sugar.)
stevia works in a covert way like sugar/simple carbohydrates at the atomic and molecular levels.
i'm not a molecular biologist so, i don't understand every detail on this matter.
the over all materal that has been published todate is both valid and sound.
baring that any major legitimate (valid and sound) study should, be published, to call the other pervious studies into question, none of this will change... stevia is very bad news indeed!

MOTHER FUCKING EXPRETS TAKE ALL THE FUN OUT OF LIFE!

CAN'T EVEN GET A GOD DAMN BREAK ON SWEETS!

 

All right well it's just that I've never heard anything about that and neither have the nutritionists at my work, and you're making these statements like they're irrefutable fact without any references so I have to be skeptical.

 

Wait, what? You just contradicted yourself.

 

I think he means that this so called liver damage will end up causing insulin resistance in the long run. Erm, maybe.

Either way I'm skeptical that such studies exist, as Stevia has been extensively tested over many years and has been used in south america for centuries and nobody has found any negative side-effects.

 

If i ever ingest anyhting sweet or trying to be sweet, its gonnah be natural sugar.

 

I also have never read or even heard of any studies than indicate that stevia has any impact on glucose levels. My understanding is that it does not. I like stevia quite a bit and feel much safer about it than I do the other artificial sweeteners. However, like anything, you should really use it in moderation. I wouldn't use large quantities of it daily, but I also wouldn't drink large quantities of regular soda daily either. Stevia is FDA approved, and so far as proven to be safer and more natural than other sweeteners, as it is simply derived from an herb.

 

Clearly it has no glycemic rating as it isn't a carbohydrate. I think what he meant was that it causes liver damage which leads to insulin resistance. But I think that's ridiculous.

 

sorry about getting back to you late but, it has been a hard week at work!

ok, to give you some valid studies on the case on the dangers of stevia, i'm giving you the link to 'the center for science in the public interest' (cspi.)
the link below is to the home page of their website. i'm sorry but i can't give you any direct links to any one study on stevia; their database is just too vast!
when you are at their home site, go to the upper left hand coner, there you will find the search function for their database. enter the search term 'stevia' and then depress the search key.
you, can now spent the next hundered years reading all the studies done to date on stevia and, all the references to the studies behind the studies too!

stabby, you stated that you work with 'nutritionists.' i'm going to need to ask you, are any of them RD's? (register dietitians)
just in case if you don't know; anyone can call themselves a 'nutritionist.' there are no standerize standers of education and trainning for 'nutritionists' as there are for rd's.

liz08, the so called FDA approval on stevia was put through on political grounds and NOT on regious sciencitifc studies.
i read about this in consumer reports; i think it was about 2 years ago. i have not kept up todate on this issue with the fda of stevia. i'm sure, it is still hot as all hell, between the corporate greed and the scientific research, with the fda stuck in the middle of this fight.
it was approved because of money intrests. (corporation greed)
the corporate product goes by the brand name 'truvia.'

 

Their site says that sparingly once or twice a day isn't much of a threat.

 

sorry, i forgot to add the link, here it is.

www.cspinet.org