I do have to question who funded the recent study that was published on 23 February 2012, when I see the suggested replacements for the foods on the ‘NEEDN’T’ List.
Individual food intolerances are one thing but… oh dear… I’m beginning to sound like a cracked record.
I have to ask how people with common sense can possibly recommend the consumption of ’diet’ soft drinks, sugar-free substitutes and artificial sweeteners, such as Aspartame? (Maybe they need to read the ‘Thought for March’ in the newsletter? 
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Results of a new study carried out in Otago University were announced to the New Zealand population last month…
I have spoken and written much about the concerns of the artificial sweeteners and you can read more on this blog on the WDDTY site or on the Mercola site as a start.
It has long been recognised by well known and respected researchers that the effect of the artificial sweeteners are absolutely appalling and result in many negative symptoms.
As a reminder here’s a list of the artificial sweeteners that can cause all sorts of issues ranging from learning difficulties, skin problems and weight gain to depression, anxiety and mood swings.
- E950 Acesulphame potassium (Acesulphame K)
- E951 Aspartame (now also named AminoSweet)
- E952 Cyclamates
- E954 Saccharin
- E955 Sucralose (sucrose with added chlorine)
One or more of these will definitely be found in products such as all ‘diet products’; Coke Zero, Diet drinks; most chewing gum; Berocca; Redoxon; Eclipse mints; Lemsip; etc, etc…
Here’s the complete ‘NEEDN’T’ list i.e foods that ‘needn’t’ be in our diet.
| NEEDN’T FOOD | REPLACE WITH: |
| 1. Alcoholic drinks | Water/diet soft drinks |
| 2. Biscuits | * |
| 3. Butter, lard, dripping or similar fat (used as a spread or in baking/cooking etc.) | Lite margarine or similar spread or omit |
| 4. Cakes | * |
| 5. Chocolate | * |
| 6. Coconut cream | Lite coconut milk/coconut flavoured lite evaporated milk |
| 7. Condensed milk | * |
| 8. Cordial | Water/Sugar free cordial |
| 9. Corn chips | * |
| 10. Cream (including crème fraiche) | Natural yoghurt (or flavoured yoghurt depending on use) |
| 11. Crisps (including vegetable crisps) | * |
| 12. Desserts/puddings | * |
| 13. Doughnuts | * |
| 14. Drinking Chocolate, Milo etc. | Cocoa plus artificial sweetener |
| 15. Energy drinks | Water |
| 16. Flavoured milk/milkshakes | Trim, Calcitrim or Lite Blue Milk |
| 17. Fruit tinned in syrup (even lite syrup!) | Fruit tinned in juice/artificially sweetened |
| 18. Fried food | Boiled, grilled or baked food |
| 19. Frozen yoghurt | Ordinary yoghurt |
| 20. Fruit juice (except tomato juice and unsweetened blackcurrant juice) | Fresh fruit (apple, orange, pear etc. + a drink!) |
| 21. Glucose | Artificial sweetener |
| 22. High fat crackers (≥ 10g fat per 100g) | Lower fat crackers (≤ 10g fat per 110g) |
| 23. Honey | * |
| 24. Hot chips | * |
| 25. Ice cream | * |
| 26. Jam | * |
| 27. Marmalade | * |
| 28. Mayonnaise | Lite dressings/lite mayonnaise |
| 29. Muesli bars | * |
| 30. Muffins | * |
| 31. Nuts roasted in fat or oil | Dry roasted or raw nuts (≤ 1 handful per day) |
| 32. Pastries | * |
| 33. Pies | * |
| 34. Popcorn with butter or oil | Air popped popcorn |
| 35. Quiches | Crust-less quiches |
| 36. Reduced cream | Natural yoghurt |
| 37. Regular luncheon sausage | Low fat luncheon sausage |
| 38. Regular powdered drinks (e.g. Raro) | Water/Diet/Sugar free powdered drinks |
| 39. Regular salami | Low fat salami |
| 40. Regular sausages | Low fat sausages |
| 41. Regular soft drinks | Water/Diet soft drinks |
| 42. Rollups | Fresh fruit |
| 43. Sour cream | Natural yoghurt |
| 44. Sugar (added to anything including drinks, baking, cooking etc.) | Artificial sweetener |
| 45. Sweets/lollies | * |
| 46. Syrups such as golden syrup, treacle, maple syrup | Artificial sweetener |
| 47. Toasted muesli and any other breakfast cereal with ≥ 15g sugar per 100g cereal | Breakfast cereal with <15g sugar per 100g cereal, > 6g fibre per 100g cereal and <5g fat per 100g cereal (or <10 g fat per 100g cereal if cereal contains nuts and seeds) |
| 48. Whole Milk | Trim, Calcitrim or Lite Blue Milk |
| 49. Yoghurt type products with ≥ 10g sugar per 100g yoghurt | Yoghurt (not more than one a day) |
