Sugar free, hands free ways to taunt your cats

[phinnia]

Just buy yourself a solar rainbow maker and stick it on a sunny window. It makes our demons crazy. :-D It also has the neat side effect of making the room look like a disco.

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I'm afraid of Splenda. It tastes funny, and I don't understand how eating transfats (genetically modified fats) is a bad thing (which I agree with) but eating genetically modified sugar is somehow okay. I understand there are some people who need to eat the stuff - people with sugar issues, diabetics, etcetera. But it scares me. *shiver* Ew.

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Edit: Irregular Webcomic! today is PRECIOUS.

Comments

[gatafairy.livejournal.com]

Splenda tastes good, I think. >.>; Plus, it's better to me than aspartame ever was (and continues to be). Aspartame makes my stomach feel weird.

Yeah. I like Splenda. And I also like that webcomic. XD

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

I have to agree about aspartame. *shiver* Uck. I just use sugar, but that doesn't work for everyone. :-)
Irregular webcomic is great, they're always good. The LJ feed is irregular_comic.

[alierak.livejournal.com]

I'd say aspartame is suspect, even if it is supposedly an urban legend (http://www.snopes.com/toxins/aspartame.asp). Aspartame breaks down over time (see expiration dates on diet sodas) and can be metabolized by the body, while Splenda (sucralose) apparently doesn't and isn't.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

Sugar is too simple a chemical for the phrase 'genetically modified' to apply. Not saying there's nothing wrong with Splenda (I don't know either way), just that it doesn't have genes to modify.

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

You make a valid point. :-) What would it be then ... molecularly modified? Yeah. They replace some of the atoms with chlorine, I think.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's about it. Tastes nasty to me too :)

[kengr]

As I understand it, it *is* sugar. Except that while normal sugar (sucrose) is a "right handed" molecule, sucralose is left-handed. So it doesn't "fit" the receptors on the enzymes that digest sucrose.

It shouldn't taste different at all because those receptors work at a "larger" level.

BTW, transfats aren't genetically modified either. They can't be because they don't have genes. They are chemically modified, but so what? That's what *cooking* is. :-)

[alierak.livejournal.com]

OTOH, Monsanto developed NutraSweet ;)

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

Who did? I'm not familiar with the company.

[alierak.livejournal.com]

The canonical example of a big evil corporation that produces genetically modified foods and disrespects the people of the world. Google for Monsanto lawsuit, for example this (http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/schmeiser050704.cfm).