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[trinityvixen]

Perhaps three posts in one morning is bordering on the ridiculous, but I have had an interesting discovery, and I wanted to sound out for others who've had the same experience.

Most of you who will be reading this know that I've recently been found out as having a couple of cavities. This has made me paranoid about sugar ruining my teeth, so when I get my cuppa at work, I've stopped dumping three sugars into it and tried using the sugar substitute instead. The one they offer at my work is Sweet and Low. I started off with three to match my sugar intake, then reduced it to two, and I'm considering one, maybe even a half after this morning. My god, "Sweet and Low" is an apt name. It's amazing how little of the stuff makes a cup of tea sweeter'n candy.

Has anyone else ever used the stuff and had their teeth ache after? It was bad enough I broke out the toothbrush I got for free from my cleaning (which is a pain as I have to use bottled water to brush because of the water around here...).

Comments

[happyelfling.livejournal.com]

I think those sugar substitutes supposedly cause cancer. I'd rather stick with cavities.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I think the Sweet and Low variety must. My gums were aching, and this is in a mouth that can take 40 ounces of slurpee in half an hour without much more than a brain freeze...

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Sweet n' Low is made of Saccharin, a sweetner not used in many products anymore because megadoses of it cause cancer in lab rats. Equal is made of aspartame, which is also in Diet Coke and most artificially-sweetened foods.

Are you sure you don't have a low-level allergy to saccharin? That might be the cause of the uncomfortable gums, more than the sweetness.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It's a possibility. I never messed with saccharin before. I've always used sugar. I just assumed it was that the sweetness was ridiculously huge because half as much equaled three sugars.

Maybe I will try not drinking tea at work in general. It's caffeine free tea, so that's not like it's doing me any favors.

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

It only causes cancer in lab animals! But I don't like the taste of the stuff anyway, so I'm safe.

[earthrise.livejournal.com]

Strange. Sugar is what makes *my* teeth ache, or at least feel eerily soft.

Maybe it's because my dad's a dentist, and we never used anything but sugarfree gum, etc. Maybe you're simply unaccustomed to the substance. I wouldn't worry about cancer, though. Living in New York City, using plastics everywhere, and any number of other factors are more likely to get you cancer sooner.

I'm an aspartame-lovin' ray of sunshine, I am!

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Yeah, given that I happily drink unfiltered tap water all the time, I suspect I'm going to get cancer from random environmental factors before I get it from artificial sweeteners.

Then again, I hate artificial sweeteners. I generally refuse to drink diet soda, among other things.

[plungerdna.livejournal.com]

i live by sweet & low and have not had real sugar in a beverage since 1996....and no, there is no evidence supporting it causes cancer in humans. In incredably large doses it can cause tumors in rats, but by "large" I mean 10x more than a human would consume in his or her lifetime...

[moonlightalice.livejournal.com]

uh, dayle? maybe your teeth hurt because they were hacked at by a dental student? i think the saccharine is innocent, here.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha, you're too funny, ms snarky thing. Really, though, I'm almost certain it was the sweet n' low. My teeth felt better immediately after I brushed them. And other fake sugar stuff doesnt hurt--nor does real sugar for that matter. Stupid saccharine.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

LORD, woman. THREE packets of Sweet-n-Low will make anyone's teeth hurt. One is usually too sweet for me.

My advice? Steal Splenda every time you're in Starbucks. It's much better. Or Equal, if you like the taste of diet sodas.