MinnesotaEric
Super Member
My wife also uses Stevia now because it's natural.
Here's something I find interesting. My family no one has or had diabetes on either side, not even aunts, uncles, cousins.
Wife has had diabetes (diagnosed type 2) for 25 years. Her parents, aunts, uncles, cousins type 2 diabetic. None obese, in fact an aunt anorexic (5'5", 89#). Her father was Cherokee, her mother English/Dutch. All diabetic but all drank DIET SODA. Also odd is my wife was adopted, Italian/Scandinavian descent. Her one uncle (mom's brother) recently passed 103 was only one not diabetic but also didn't drink diet soda.
I really believe since my family they don't drink diet soda either there's some correlation.
FWIW, I try to avoid any sweeteners because the body, diabetic or not, reacts to those sweeteners the same way it reacts to sugar.