Oceanbreeze
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I wanted to give a warning to those who may be inclined to eat sugar free products. Please be extremely careful when consuming anything with the substance sorbitol. Last night, I ate about 5-6 sugar free cookies containing sorbitol and ended up spending the rest of the night in the bathroom!
I know that sorbitol CAN have a laxative effect if the product is consumed in large amounts, but I didn't think eating 5-6 cookies over the course of say 5 hrs constituted a huge amount, but my body said otherwise!
Anyway, I just wanted to warn everyone about this. Be careful with these products! If you don't know what your body can tolerate, either don't eat anything containing sorbitol or have maybe one or two. I don't want anyone else going thru what I did last night! It wasn't fun!
Here's a link on sorbitol if anyone is interested:
Sorbitol’s Laxative Effect Might Cause Abdominal Problems - Diabetes Health
I know that sorbitol CAN have a laxative effect if the product is consumed in large amounts, but I didn't think eating 5-6 cookies over the course of say 5 hrs constituted a huge amount, but my body said otherwise!
Anyway, I just wanted to warn everyone about this. Be careful with these products! If you don't know what your body can tolerate, either don't eat anything containing sorbitol or have maybe one or two. I don't want anyone else going thru what I did last night! It wasn't fun!
Here's a link on sorbitol if anyone is interested:
Sorbitol’s Laxative Effect Might Cause Abdominal Problems - Diabetes Health