> > Stevia is okay, right?
>
>         Avoid any artificial sweetners.  I satasfy my sweet tooth with
> bananas, others use fat.  One of the strange things about fat is that it
> stops cravings for sweets.

Stevia is a natural, no calorie sweetener.  It is the leaves of the stevia
plant dried, crushed and (gulp) "refined" (I don't know what they do in
this step).

I have a page about it at www.split.com/fat

> > Well, it's low carb bacon ... looking at the package it says it is cured,
> > but it has zero carbs.  So is it okay or not?
>
>         There is a common myth that swimming after eating will kill you,
> as will a high-protein diet.  The actual negative effects o high protien
> deits are caused by factors other than protien.  In rats, the cause is
> obviously that rats are toothy little herbavores.  With humans, the two
> factors are soy and salt.  Soy does all kinds of nasty things to the
> body.  Salt, and nitrates, are responsible for the kidney damage
> believed to be caused by protein.  On NeaderThin avoid cured bacon, ham,
> and other heavily processed meats.  The best thing you can give yourself
> is FRESH meat, untampered with by people who have to pander to the jaded
> tastes of pople who consume over 100 lbs of suger a year.  NeanderThin
> is a low sodium diet.  Yesterday I did have a "desert" of peperoni
> (technically, a minor no no).  And I do eat pork rinds (Jays, no flour
> or MSG, but a bit of salt).  As you get used to NeanderThin your desire
> for salt should all but disappear.

So this won't stop my weight loss, but it will kill me.  I'll be thin and
dead?