Edgar Cayce on Sweeteners versus 'Fake Sugar'
Clues in Edgar Cayce's Readings about using sweeteners safely
Hi Friends,
I’m working on a new blog post on “Sugar, Sweetener, and Fake Sugar“. Something’s not right in our modern world, and I have a few observations that I’m planning to share.
Consider this email a preview. Feel free to forward this to everyone you know who’s interested in satiating their sweet tooth safely.
Below there’s a little bit about recruiting you for detective work, if you’re celebrating Thanksgiving in the U.S. today.
Edgar Cayce on Sweets
In their requests for a psychic health reading by Edgar Cayce, many people asked about sweets. Sometimes Cayce said ‘no sweets!’, but often he recommended honey, dates, or beet sugar. A small amount of cane sugar was usually okay to sweeten coffee or tea.
Sidenote: I haven’t figured out the difference between cane sugar and beet sugar from Cayce’s perspective. In the modern world the beet sugar industry switched to Roundup-ready beets, so there’s probably traces of Roundup [glyphosate] in all the beet sugars on the market. Whatever the case, there’s probably not a huge difference between sucrose refined from beets vs. sucrose refined from sugarcane.
Saccharin was the first artificial sweetener, discovered in the 1800’s. Edgar Cayce often recommended saccharin to provide a little sweetness. This low-calorie sweetener could be used for baking, and some of the candies available at the time were sweetened with saccharin. The following instruction was part of the reading given to a woman who asked why she was “nervous and all on edge, and upset in the office":
Very little or no sweets. Very little candies of any kind, unless those that are of the saccharin; NOT those of the corn starch, corn syrup or sugar cane products. The sugars taken should preferably be beet sugar, even when taken in small quantities as for coffee, tea or the like - see?
Edgar Cayce Reading [349-13], F 29 (emphasis added)
Today most of us are familiar with Saccharin as Sweet’n Low or ‘the pink packet’. The other common low-calorie sweeteners in the modern world are Equal (blue), Splenda (yellow), and sometimes stevia- or monk fruit-based sweeteners (green). These did not become available until the 1960’s or later, and thus were not mentioned in the Edgar Cayce readings. Equal is a blend of aspartame, acesulfame potassium and fillers. Splenda is made of sucralose and fillers. Stevia and monk fruit are extracted from plants (even though they’re natural, they are problematic [allergenic] for some, and may not be 100% safe).
(Side note: Canadian Sweet’N Low uses Cyclamate as its artificial sweetner. US Sweet’N Low uses Saccharin, with corn dextrose as a filler. The restaurant I was at yesterday had a generic saccharin sweetener in a pink packet.)
Making Medicine Palatable
There’s a song in the 1964 Disney film Mary Poppins with the refrain, “a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.” Sweetness is commonly used to mask the bitter taste of some medicines.
Traditionally saccharin was used for this purpose. Saccharin has been extensively studied, and has been found to be safe. The sweetness supplied by saccharin is not a perfect substitute for sugar, but this may be important.
Food and medicine manufactures seem to be switching away from the tried-and-true, and are replacing saccharin with sucralose. Consider this safe-looking magnesium citrate laxative:
After we got home I looked at the inactive ingredients, and found… sucralose:
Sucralose is advertised as “made from sugar, so it tastes like sugar.” But there are reports on the internet about sucralose making people despondent. There are studies that suggest sucralose and its metabolites disrupt the microbiome in our guts and contribute to inflammation.
I wonder if sucralose is safe for use as a sweetener, or if it’s a form of ‘fake sugar’ that confuses the body into thinking sugar has been consumed. I also have concerns about aspartame and acesulfame potassium. If sucralose and other modern low calorie sweeteners are not safe, then it’s a mistake to consume products that are made with these chemicals.
Saccharin was specifically recommended by Edgar Cayce, for multiple reasons. If you need a little sweetness, and don’t want to use honey, dates, maple syrup or sugar, saccharin is certainly much safer than the other artificial sweeteners on the market.
What kind of sweeteners do you use?
Humans often crave sweets, often for good reasons. What do you do when your body says it would appreciate something sweet? Do you use artificial sweeteners? Which sweeteners do you prefer: natural? artificial? How long have you been using your sweetener of choice?
There is some truth to the harm of refined sugar, as found in artificially-flavored sugar candies. But when sugar is combined with nutrient-rich foods, such as pumpkin pie filling [made with pumpkin, dairy, eggs, spices], the other ingredients provide the nutrients the body needs to effectively burn the sugar.
A Request: Thanksgiving Detective Work
Today is the Thanksgiving holiday in the US. If you notice sucralose, saccharin, aspartame, or acesulfame potassium in any of the foods on your menu today, can you txt me a picture? My google voice # is 602-842-2688.
One of the points I intend to make in my blog post is that deserts can be made to have less glucose by making puddings instead of pies (that is, making a pie filling without a crust). If there’s pie on your menu today, I suggest eating around the crust.
It’s a little late to change your menu for today, but for future reference, Cayce recommended honey more often than beet sugar. Anything is better than Splenda (sucralose).
I count at least 30 Edgar Cayce readings that specifically recommended the use of saccharin.
Bulk Saccharin
Sweet’N Low’s website says they have a bulk box:
Sweet'N Low® can be used just like sugar in cooking and baking. Our 8oz. box makes it easy for bakers to measure out how much sweetener they'll need for a recipe. Each box has the equivalent sweetness to 5lbs. of sugar and includes a free measuring spoon.
I swung by Walmart for a box of bulk Sweet’N Low last night. I’ll let you know what I notice. My first creation will be a pumpkin pudding made with pumpkin, cream cheese, salt, spices and Sweet’N Low. My second creation will be a lemon pudding of some sort.
That’s enough for now. Thanks!
-James Knochel
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P.S. I intend to put together a “black friday” package… Probably it’ll be a combination of Electric Iodine™ and Grounding Coins.
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