I have been using Stevia for 3 years and think it is a great substitute for sugar.
The following wikipedia site offers an interesting insight to the current development of this ancient natural compound. Who's for Coke and Pepsi? especially if they are diabetic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevia

Tony

I gave up carbonated stuff a long time ago. I couldn't stand the burping. But I drink the Crystal Light (with the splenda). And I CAN'T WAIT till they start putting Stevia, or Truvia or WHATEVER, in some non-carbonated drinks.

I'll just add my benefiber and I'm good to GO!!!

lol

Melody

Mel,Between my Lyrica & Tramadol, I need something for constipation.
'Fiber Sure' is only 1 tsp per glass, approx the same price as 'Benefiber', and the bottle has twice the doses. 2 per day -
1tsp am & 1tsp pm before bed and I'm good to GO!

But I have coupons for Benefiber. So it's cheap, I"M GOOD TO GO EVERY MORNING, after I come home from my lovely breakfast nook where we all sit around, laugh our heads off and discuss what's in the newspaper. This breakfast does more for me than anything I could do. And I'm not talking about food. lol

I just wish I could train my body to GO when I get up in the morning. I can't remember what I did in my 20's when I went to work every morning. I must have GONE, because I'm not the type to GO while I'm at work.

I think it's all about conditioning our body to get used to GOING when we want it to GO.

Hey, I'm still learning about my body (even at my age).

God only knows what I'll be doing when I'm 80. I won't be sitting on my front porch knitting. That much I know.

I just came from my breakfast place and they were playing this fast throbbing music. We were in the back. Even with my arthritis, sometimes I CAN MOVE. We were laughing out heads off just tapping our fingers and MOVING in our seats.

And the young ones were enthralled when I told them I'm from the Woodstock generation and I went to Jimmy Hendrix concerts, and Santana Concerts at the Fillmore East.

Ah, for those days.

Now, all the baby boomers are using BEN GAY!!!

lol lol

more and more leary and suspicious of OTC and prescribed supplements. Now I will be even more so?
I've read of many folks and I myself experience the new 'sensitivities' one can acquire about anything and everything in the way of foods, ingestives or topicals? I guess the best one can do is READ the labels and eliminate the seeming offenders and allow others in the door to 'try' and see.
We do seem to become 'fussy' tho. Don't we?
's to all and then some! - j

In chosing supplements, choose a brand that has GMP on the label. Examples are NOW, NatureMade, and Puritan's pride.

In choosing toothpaste and other sundries, stay with name brands and do not buy at dollar stores off brands.

A generic company that is good is Perrigo.

We can never be totally sure of anything these days with China running amok. Also big business buying off the FDA is not great either.

Supplements have changed my life. So I continue to use them.
If I notice anything "off" with me, I look carefully at what I am taking. So far in my 60+yrs it has been an RX drug that caused me grief. Either wrong choice or too high a dose has been my experience.