I am posting this as it was stimulated by one of our members after reading our email about coffee. We just might have to post that one on the site too, its stimulated a lot of chatter. I have edited out the clients name and email of course. Enjoy my response that follows. – Patrick.

Oh yeah, John and I love our coffee, believe me. Buzz, buzz, buzz.
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Ok,

so I understand the whole coffee debate. But, if I get a non-fat cappuccino with one

splenda, how is that bad? I think in total there is about 100 calories in a grande.

Or if I just get a Venti Green Tea with one splenda is that Ok? I have been hearing

some mixed reviews on the actual overall “safe” artificial sweeteners like splenda.

so which of the many sweeteners is best?

Thank you

Jay O.

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Hey Jay.

OK coffee is coffee, as long as it is black. Now that is for optimal results.

We did an audio on this recently and the answer is you can have the non fat milk, the whole cream if you wish. but adjust your calories in yoor snack or meal to offset the carbs.

Its not always the fat that makes you fat, in many cases it is really the carbs that make you fat. That and a sedentary careless nutrition lifestyle.

Sweetners are good… but the press will tell you they are bad for you. Really? Think of it this way, if we continue to eat as much sugar in a coffee as we do today, we are guaranteed to get fat and be a burden on the medical models we have today due to obesity, diabetes, cancer, and more.

If we continue to take in more sweetners (which is much less than the amount of sugar to get equal sweetness) then the reports will show if you eat 3 dump trucks a year of sweetner there is a link to brain cancer from a study done in rats with a diet replacing all carbs for sweetner induced foods. No mention of the protein or fat intake, but the ‘researchers’ assumed that the rats brain cancer was from the sweetners.

Which sweetner should you choose? Well there are a lot. Chemically I use Splenda or whatever is in the diet soda, when I am in need of a sugar fix and that is rare. I drink black coffee and green teas or raw teas (meaning nothing in them) to keep them alkaline and not acidic in nature, which is what happens when you add anything to a raw, natural drink… but that’s another topic.

If I was to choose one and only one sweetner to use, it would be the all natural stevia extract. That one works well, and no one has produced a study to say its bad. Why? Well because it is ‘natural’ and most people only look to prove man made things are bad. I am sure if I ate only 3 dump trucks a year of Stevia and almost nothing else, I would still get some medical ailment someday between now and the time I am 100 years old.

But for now, Stevia is the natural sweetner of choice. Oh and just so you know it is an extract from a plant.