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Artificial Sweeteners, 3 servings per day?
I hadn't questioned this rule before, and have stuck by it religiously thus far since REstarting Atkins on 1/3. But today someone asked me where I was getting my belief that we can only have 3 servings of artificial sweetener per day during Induction. I arrogantly went to the web and pulled up the Acceptable Foods List and the Rules of Induction to point out what I KNEW to be true... 3 servings per day. But what I found instead was this:
From rules of induction:
From rules of induction:
8. Use sucralose or saccharin as a sweetener. Be sure to count each packet of any of these as 1 gram of carbs.
(NO mention of limiting to 3 servings.)
From the acceptable foods list: Artificial Sweeteners
You must determine which artificial sweeteners agree with you, but the following are allowed: sucralose (marketed as Splenda™), saccharin, cyclamate and acesulfame-K. Natural sweeteners ending in the suffix "-ose," such as maltose, etc., should be avoided. However, most sugar alcohols have a minimal effect on blood sugar and are acceptable.
Saccharin has been extensively studied, and harmful effects were produced in the lab when fed to rats only in extremely high doses. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has removed saccharin from its list of carcinogens, basing its decision upon a thorough review of the medical literature and the National Institute of Science’s statement that there is "no clear association between saccharin and human cancer." It can be safely consumed in moderation, meaning no more than three packets a day. Saccharin is marketed as Sweet'n Low™.
The Atkins preference, however, is sucralose (Splenda™), the only sweetener made from sugar. Sucralose is safe, noncaloric and does not raise blood sugar. It has been used in Canada for years, and the FDA approved it after reviewing more than 100 studies conducted over the past 20 years. Note that each packet of sugar substitute contains about 1 gram of carbohydrate, so don’t forget to include the amount in your daily totals.
The only mention here of limiting it to 3 packets per day, is in the context of discussing the safety of saccharin in moderate amounts. It says to make sure to count the carbs, but there's nothing at all saying we must limit artificial sweeteners to 3 servings per day. So my quesiton is, where does this rule come from? Is this an ADBB myth or does it have a foundation in DANDR, just not within these two sources? Very curious!
You must determine which artificial sweeteners agree with you, but the following are allowed: sucralose (marketed as Splenda™), saccharin, cyclamate and acesulfame-K. Natural sweeteners ending in the suffix "-ose," such as maltose, etc., should be avoided. However, most sugar alcohols have a minimal effect on blood sugar and are acceptable.
Saccharin has been extensively studied, and harmful effects were produced in the lab when fed to rats only in extremely high doses. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has removed saccharin from its list of carcinogens, basing its decision upon a thorough review of the medical literature and the National Institute of Science’s statement that there is "no clear association between saccharin and human cancer." It can be safely consumed in moderation, meaning no more than three packets a day. Saccharin is marketed as Sweet'n Low™.
The Atkins preference, however, is sucralose (Splenda™), the only sweetener made from sugar. Sucralose is safe, noncaloric and does not raise blood sugar. It has been used in Canada for years, and the FDA approved it after reviewing more than 100 studies conducted over the past 20 years. Note that each packet of sugar substitute contains about 1 gram of carbohydrate, so don’t forget to include the amount in your daily totals.
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) and to top it off I would make an induction friendly dessert at night using, yep, splenda. I was stalled at a 35-37 pound loss for about 3 months. 
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