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Originally Posted by DtheP47
No not being fly Margaret. Stevia may well be a healthier alternative to a whole basket of sweeteners, I am not convinced. Will it reduce tooth decay in youngsters? I think not it will only contribute to then developing the "sweet tooth" you and Margaret R confess to.
A fad a new alternative a bit like UKIP a different label offering not very much new when it's looked at closely.
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It isn't sugar.....I do not have a sweet tooth, otherwise the box of Thorntons chocolates(a present at Christmas last year) would be long gone. My only confession was to liking my tea sweetened.
As for tooth decay in youngsters, that is something that parents need to,address with appropriate dental hygiene and healthy dietary intake......but children consume lots of fizzy drinks, and even with sugar substitutes they are damaging.
They leach calcium out of the bones......as well as the sweeteners having adverse effects on living tissue(see earlier post).
And before you tell me that these sweeteners have been given a clean bill of health...I would say'pull the other one, it has bells on it'.
These sweeteners are a Montsanto production(well development)a very large and politically influential company who would have no compunction in skewing research results(in a scientifically acceptable form)to ensure their coffers are not affected.