Viactiv as alternative to sweets

[VeggieLifterChick]

I have recently once again cut out sweets from my diet and found that I still crave them. My current solution is 2 milk chocolate flavored Viactiv chews. They have half a day's worth of calcium in each one, so I eat 2. They satisfy my cravings and yet I have had no impulse to binge on them even though I've been going through some stressful times. I believe it was MS who told me to take calcium apart from a multivitamin because it blocks absorption of other nutrients, so I eat the chews at night and have the multi with breakfast. Just thought I'd share this for anyone else who is craving sweets but cannot eat junk either due to problems like bingeing, or sugar addiction, or strict contest diets. I believe they come in other flavors as well, including caramel.

Nutritional Info for 1 Chew

20 cals
.5 g fat
4g carbs (3g sugar)
only 10 mg sodium

100 IU Vitamin D (25% Daily Value)
40 mcg Vitamin K (50% DV)
500 mcg Calcium (50% DV)

 

[starfish]

Yummmmm... Those things are good!

 

[starfish]

 

[starfish]

OK, while we are on the subject of calcium. Is it true that our diets are extremely poor in calcium and that the societies which live the longest all have extremely high amounts of calcium in thier diets?

Any truth to that?

 

[VeggieLifterChick]

Sure there's sugar in it, but only 3 grams. Small sacrifice to satisfy a craving and prevent a binge/relapse, IMHO.

 

[makedah]

OK, while we are on the subject of calcium. Is it true that our diets are extremely poor in calcium and that the societies which live the longest all have extremely high amounts of calcium in thier diets?

Any truth to that?

I've never heard either of those things.

 

[starfish]

I've never heard either of those things.

Probably just a theory or gimmick

 

[makedah]

Or something circulated by the Dairy Council.

 

[starfish]

Or something circulated by the Dairy Council.

No nothing like that... opposite.


Looking at the oldest living people like in Okinawa Japan. Supposedly thier diets are rich in coral calcium and they live extremely disease free, long lives.

Other societies too.. High calcium diets was ONE of the common threads.

It was interesting, even if it was not valid.

 

[makedah]

Oh, I'm not weighing in on the validity of it or not. But yeah, if what you read/heard was talking about coral calcium then it wasn't the Dairy Industry wonks b/c they equate calcium with dairy.

What is coral calcium, btw.