What Drinks

[hammerman]

I have a fairly physical job and I sweat a lot. As a result, I try to keep the liquid intake to 1.5 litres .

Trouble is, I don't like water....plain water that is. I drink Volvic sugar free lemon and lime flavour water...and quite a bit of it.

But there's now a lot of fuss over artificial sweetners which are in the volvic. I love tea but again, have one sugar in it and it's not always available.

Any suggestions what I could/should drink without using just plain water.

Cheers

[ethandron]

Hammerman, I should have said, I'm type 2 too, and it's not sugar I have in coffee, it's canderel, it's the only sweetener I like.
There's been a lot of bad press about various sweeteners but the way I look at it is, it's better for me than sugar and I only have it in coffee, which I only drink in the morning.
I make up a jug of just plain tap water with a couple of lemons sliced up into it, you wouldn't believe the difference the lemons make. No need to steep them for ages, the fresh lemons make it so refreshing.

[jack daniels]

Hi Ham
i hate water too - find it so boring! but i also find all i can taste in artificial sweetened drinks is the artificial sweeteners!
i seem to like the tesco double concentrated, sugar free, diluting squash quite good - not too much of an after taste. I'm sitting here with a hot orange flavoured cup now which is nice - tap hot water.
there are so many fruit tea available - have you given them a try & you dont need milk for them.

Anna x

[jamesnan]

Put thick slices of lemon into cold water and allow to steep for several hours, giving them a squeeze occasionally. This gives the water the taste of lemon without using any sugar

[ethandron]

I'm not sure why I deserve best answer hammerman, but thank you anyway :)

[theprof]

atalanta, it would have been very useful if you could have stated which artificial sweetener you were referring to when you implied that they can cause cancer at 22,000 times the normal dose.

There is no normal dose for sweeteners in humans. There is no normal dose for sweeteners in laboratory animals nor any other animal if it comes to that. Each species has its own individual maximum intake before dangerous levels are achieved. Furthermore, each artificial sweetener you can name has its own maximum intake in each individual species. Therefore, you cannot group all laboratory animals as the same when it comes to matters like this nor can you imply that all artificial sweeteners have similar toxicity in all laboratory animals.
They do not.

Laboratory toxicity studies are very complex and I have not even skirted around the edge of the subject in the explanation above.

[theprof]

Moving on, there are no completely harmless artificial sweeteners known to man. Some are metabolised in a manner which remains a mystery. Others are known to be toxic in various degrees including some going as far back as saccharin.

As an example, no one knows precisely how sucralose is processed in the mammalian body despite extensive research. I have read numerous dissertations written by my own students on the subject as well as academic papers written by many of my esteemed colleagues. We all remain in the dark over the issue although the manufacturers of sucralose will tell you that they know all about the subject.

Other sweeteners can be affect for those with certain medical conditions. Sometimes, the patient is unaware that they have one of these conditions.

Cyclamates were banned in the UK for many years due to a recognised link between the sweeteners and testicular disease in boys. Yet, a few years ago the UK government rescinded the ban quietly and once again, cyclamates are commonplace in many brands of soft drinks and squashes. No conclusive evidence exists that cyclamates are harmless.