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To: LindyBill who wrote (1358)	9/25/2008 9:01:49 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 39297

LB, After googling a bit, I think I was wrong. Joe

To: LindyBill who wrote (1358)	9/26/2008 6:42:34 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 39297

One of the criticisms of artificial sweeteners, in general, is that they distort one's sense of sweetness. If you're used to eating very sweet foods, then you can't appreciate the lesser, natural sweetness of, say, an apple. (The same thing happens with salt.) The concern, I expect, is that enjoying artificially sweetened foods makes one an easier mark for sugar-sweetened foods. If you stop using artificial sweeteners, then your sense of sweetness adjusts and chocolate, chocolate chip, marshmallow ice cream sundae with whipped cream and sprinkles becomes repulsively, sickeningly sweet and you'll reach for the apple, instead. I believe this to be true having undergone both salt and sugar taste adjustments, myself. But that's no excuse for discrediting artificial sweeteners for their glycemic effect when it seems to be negligible. Too many of the messages on nutrition are manipulative.