Stevia is not so innocent

Stevia has caused me some serious trouble. I used the stuff for years and recently discovered that stevia has given the same results as cinnamon and turmeric. It's a lowered blood sugar feeling and I have a glucose meter resulting normal blood sugar ranges when I feel like I'm going to pass out.

I have put stevia in everything for years and most of the time I'm not eating any carbs and have adapted well to eating that way. However feeling dizzy and craving sugar like crazy was not my diet, it was stevia. If only I knew this a long time ago I might of saved my self some serious hardship.

Once I eliminated the stevia I had very bad headaches and felt awful for about three days. My food cravings went way down and now my cravings are gone. Now it is only a mental thing and not a physically going nuts for certain foods.

Stevia is the innocent sweetener on the market right now and is a lifesaver for people that are cutting sugar out of their diet. If stevia lowers blood sugar and also drives hunger up through the roof, it isn't saving the day, it is making the day more difficult to stay away from the sugar.

All sweeteners are a problem one way or another and  once the tongue senses sweetness the body reacts and starts things going.

It is challenging to keep all sweetness out of the diet. Life gets tricky because of what the majority buys from marketing ploys. In Asia they use stevia to lower blood sugar in diabetics. That is not what is being marketed over here in the states. Here it is being marketed as a product that doesn't raise insulin and doesn't raise blood sugar. The body will raise blood sugar if Insulin is lowering blood sugar. This will make you feel light headed and weak. So the way it is being marketed in the states is pretty much not the truth. The stevia sales are growing big and now it is in Sprite Green. In the next few years many people will be learning that they are getting fat from drinking heavy dosed stevia drinks and feeling very, very hungry for real sugary snacks. Stevia is also used to increase the appetite in livestock. In the U.S. you are definitely not seeing any advertisements touting appetite increase abilities of stevia.

Maybe you have experienced some of these symptoms from using stevia. The more I used (which at sometimes was a lot) the higher the symptoms would be. Over time I was putting more in my drinks and food. At first it was bitter tasting and after years of use I was adding more in. It is strange that since taking it out I have a very weird feeling like something is missing. That should not be an effect from an innocent sweetener.