With all kinds of information and misinformation out there, I went on the hunt for facts on artificial sweeteners. These sweeteners are tasting more and more like sugar, but are they good for me?
I have a friend who is allergic to most artificial sweeteners, and another friend whose daughter experienced seizures as a side effect of consuming an artificial sweetener on a regular basis in her beverages. By the time the girl was three, she wore a helmet to protect her head because of the regularity and severity of her seizures. It took some time to figure out that the artificial sweetener was the culprit. With that in mind, and my desire to lose weight, I went on the search for facts on artificial sweeteners and have come up with more questions. For one, are some artificial sweeteners safer than others?
This week I’ll delve into the different types of artificial sweeteners and even take a look to see if they can actually contribute to weight gain. That’s what I heard. Can you imagine! We’ll also take a look at dangers and side effects and how the results of earlier studies on saccharin have been overturned. The new studies claim that it is safe for us…in fact out of the five FDA approved non-nutritive sweeteners saccharin is often picked as the safest! And what about new sweeteners like Truvia?
With so many questions rattling around my brain, I figured there might be a slew of others out there wondering the same things. I’d love to hear what you all think. If you have any facts on artificial sweeteners that you’d like to share, please take a moment a leave a comment.
October 16th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
How much fact is there in artificial sweeteners making people fat?
I have seen a lot of debate on this. Myself I love Diet Coke. Not because of the calories and sugar in regular, but I like the taste better. It is my drink.
I have been hearing that artificial sweeteners are leading to weight gain. How much do we really know about this? If this is the case I will remove all of this kind of thing from my diet.
October 17th, 2009 at 3:53 am
Diet Coke is a scam…still has Corn Syrup right? so it affects as bad…calories might be lower but the sugar still there. Corn Syrup is your answer, so yes, it still kills you slow. Read about it.
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http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=corn+syrup&ei=UTF-8&fr=moz2
October 17th, 2009 at 3:55 am
No.i think it’s false. You don’t gain weight because of artificial sweeteners. But that doesn’t make them less harmful. In fact, Aspartame[In Diet Coke] is really bad for you. It leads to cancer, brain tumor..etc. Sucralose is better as a substitute.
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October 17th, 2009 at 3:57 am
The reason why you gain weight is because artificial sweetener is full of chemicals. Your body is not made to process chemicals. Therefore it slows down your metoboliasm and cause damage to other organs. Thats why people get fat. When the body dont fucntion well thats when all the decease happen. Thats why a clense http://themasterclensesecret.blogspot.comis recommended
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October 17th, 2009 at 3:59 am
These sweeteners are really just toxins. The toxins that your body does not cleanse itself of get stored in fat cells.
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October 17th, 2009 at 4:01 am
The deal that I saw on the news says that it’s not necessarily the sweetener that is making people fat. It’s the fact that people think " I had a diet coke so I can afford the dessert calories". Whatever people are saving with the artificial sweetener they make up, and more; with extra food. It also true that the artifical sweetener is full of chemicals, so watch your intake.
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ABC morning news
October 17th, 2009 at 4:03 am
The artificial sweeteners themselves do not make people fat. Generally there are no calories(that means corn syrup) in diet drinks. When you consume a drink with normal sugar, your body sends a signal, a response to your brain saying this is the real stuff…your blood sugar goes up, then crashes. Just the way it should when you consume something with sugar. However, in diet drinks there is no sugar. So when you drink a diet beverage your still tasting something sweet, but your brain doesn’t recieve the signal. Then people consume more food to compensate for the lack of response to the brain.
The bottom line is that people that drink diet sodas tend to over eat. Thats not so for everybody, but for most.
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October 17th, 2009 at 4:05 am
They do not make you gain weight it is just that sence you think it is better for you you think you can have more and the more is what makes you gain
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October 17th, 2009 at 4:07 am
diet coke has 35mg of sodium so having a lot of that could harm you. but if you take diet coke Zero you dont have as much 10. i had the same problem but switching to diet coke zero would help a lot. VOTE ME BEST ANSWER!!!!
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looking on the back of a diet coke, and a diet coke zero.
October 17th, 2009 at 4:09 am
mucho
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