Comments on: Truvia - Natural Zero Calorie Sweetener Arrives!

By: You Know You're A Low-Carber When.... | MuscleHack

You Know You're A Low-Carber When.... | MuscleHack — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:30:02 +0000

[...] get genuinely excited by the prospect of an all-natural calorie-free sweetener hitting the [...]

By: Liquid Splenda - Good Or Bad? | MuscleHack

Liquid Splenda - Good Or Bad? | MuscleHack — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:47:19 +0000

[...] playing the waiting game for Truvia right now, but in the meantime I went looking for a zero-calorie sweetener that was considered [...]

By: Yoni

Yoni — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:08:22 +0000

It may sound ideal, but have you considered the downsides of zero-calorie sweeteners, even natural? Sweetness is strongly associated with sugar in our bodies, and while Stevia may be a natural substance, we may not have evolved to react to it differently than to sugar. If so, natural or not, it may not be beneficial to either health or body composition to use zero-calorie sweeteners. See this paper:
Swithers SE, Davidson TL. A role for sweet taste: calorie predictive relations in energy regulation by rats. Behavioral Neuroscience. 2008 Feb Vol 122(1) 161-173.

By: Mark McManus

Mark McManus — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:46:50 +0000

Not yet Carl. Let’s just wait and see.
Mark

By: Carl Hendrick

Carl Hendrick — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:15:45 +0000

Can you get this in the UK?