How to clean veggies & Stevia 
garcia
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Shelley,
a lot of the veggies I eat are non-organic, so I need something to clean them with. What do you recommend - hydrogen peroxide or special veggie wash soap??
Also which brand of Stevia do you recommend and where can I buy it online (Stevia is banned in the UK).
Many thanks,
Garcia.
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MoreThis is a reply to # 380,010A good veggie wash is best - here's one
http://www.veggie-wash.com/
As for Stevia, try any you can find at a vitamin/supplement Online store that ships to the UK! :) There might be recommendations in the Stevia forum. I have yet to buy Stevia on its lonesome - it's included in my teas that are already pre-packaged. For my other Sugar needs I tend to stick to Brown Rice Syrup and Fructose, the natural fruit Sugar which you can buy in a crystaline form much like table sugar, which my health food store sells.
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MoreThis is a reply to # 380,013What about Rapadura?Once again I was reading(my husband says that I believe everything I read;that I'm too gullible:)
Is the Fructose that I can buy at a spice store okay? Also, can you use it spoon for spoon like "regular" sugar?
Thanks
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This is a reply to # 380,014Rapadura is still cane sugar, it's just less refined so you get more of the molassas and natural minerals, so yes it's better than table sugar, just still sucrose. :)
Fructose is actually sweeter than sucrose, so you can use a little bit less of it. It doesn't stand up to heat the same way as regular sugar, so you can't bake with it. I tried baking brownies with fructose and they wouldn't rise! LOL! :)- Re: Sugar Subs butterbow
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This is a reply to # 380,024Applesauce in place of the dairy/fats is the only trick I know! Haven't tried it yet - my cakes are one of my few decadance allowances, I only stop them during cleanses. ;) But I don't do cakes with a lot of icing, I tend to do really nice butter cakes that stand on their own or with a simple glaze. :)
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This is a reply to # 380,026Thanks shelleycat. What is the best way to eat to stay healthy and prevent stones? Is a low carb diet good? What about eating animal protein? There are so many confusing diets/ways to eat. I don't know what to eat or not eat anymore! What foods would be casusing me to have too much cholesterol which causes stones? Thanks. Sue
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- Thanks Shelley! ;-) n/m garcia 20 y 933
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This is a reply to # 380,013I would just caution anyone not to go hog-wild on things like fructose, brown rice sugar, or whatever. It's still concentrated, (and fructose is refined) sugar, albeit in a different form. Fructose goes straight to the liver and can also cause problems for the pancreas, so I understand. For the record, blackstrap molasses has a ton of nutrients attached to it, but a strong taste accompanying. So don't think just because it's not sucrose you can eat all you want.
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This is a reply to # 380,036That's absolutely true. I hope all my readers recognize that when I recommend certain things I recommend them in balance. :)
I'm not into the type of thinking that says, hey, since this is a different Sugar or Sugar substitute I can have a LOT of it. Like people who have a diet coke and think it cancels out the Big Mac they eat with it. ;)
I'm trying to stay in the real world (something I'm not good at in other areas of my life heheheh) where we really need options such as brown rice syrup so we can happily eat the whole grains that are so very good for us. A teaspoon of that can certainly be handled, I hope, even by diabetics.
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- Splenda/sucralose is dangerous!! garcia
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This is a reply to # 380,030Splenda/sucralose is a totally artificial molecule which doesn't exist in nature. It is thought to be toxic. Quoting from the Dr Mercola site (link below):
"Research in animals has shown that sucralose can cause many problems in rats, mice, and rabbits, such as:
Shrunken thymus glands (up to 40% shrinkage)
Enlarged liver and kidneys.
Atrophy of lymph follicles in the spleen and thymus
Increased cecal weight
Reduced growth rate
Decreased red blood cell count
Hyperplasia of the pelvis
Extension of the pregnancy period
Aborted pregnancy
Decreased fetal body weights and placental weights
Diarrhea"
I have found sucralose in cheap supplements - watch out for it - but I always return any that I find telling the store about the potential dangers of this new sweetener.
http://www.mercola.com/2000/dec/3/sucralose_dangers.htm
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