Woke up with a sore throat this morning, almost certainly the same thing Katie’s been fighting all week, so I’ve been drinking tea today. Our lunch room at work has a basket of sugar, Sweet-n-low, and Equal packets which someone has thoughtfully arranged in three wide stripes, making it look oddly like the French tricolor.
When the receptionist cleans the coffee maker, she puts a post-it note on the urn labeled “Poison,” often with a skull and crossbones, to make sure that no one absent-mindedly pours himself a cup of cleaning fluid. (And face it, if you really need the coffee, you won’t notice!)
Disturbingly, someone had set that post-it note on top of the sugar packets.
Now, I’m sure you can find nutritionists, dietitians, and the occasional conspiracy theorist who will agree with that assessment—and throw in aspartame and saccharin as well—but it’s not a label you want to see on something you’re about to put in your own drink. Even when you know it’s safe!
Were you aware that sweetpoison.com is an anti-aspartame site? (Rather interesting, but on the whole much too preachy to be taken with less than a shakerful of salt.)
Interesting…
Unfortunately, it looks more like an infomercial than an actual advocacy site, which tripped my BS detector real fast.
Have you had that thing where you wake up in the middle of the night unable to breathe because your throat is so constricted and you have to spend the next 10 minutes gasping for air?
Maybe that is a special feature of those of us who have asthma when they suffer from The Plague.
Fortunately, no… but as a fellow asthmatic, I’ve been dreading it.
On the other hand, my asthma is mostly under control (even if I have to take three kinds of medication every day). It’s my allergies that really cause problems.