Artificial Sweeteners Health Effects
Debate on the safety, health impacts, and metabolic effects of artificial sweeteners like aspartame, sucralose, and erythritol, including insulin spikes, weight gain, and comparisons to sugar.
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The article points out that different artificial sweeteners have different glycemic responses, so you could try some others.
Does it say anything about artificial sweeteners?
This depends on the sweetener. There have been recent articles linking bad health effects to erythritol and sucralose that I am aware of.
"Artificial sweeteners are ten times worse than real sugar" source?
Artificial sweeteners are not free of negative impacts;http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892765/
Well, there’s some evidence that artificial sweeteners contribute more to weight gain, metabolic disorder, and type II diabetes than sugar does (due to biological feedback loops), and is more harmful to the gut microbiome. Then there are all the other chemicals (phosphoric acid, iirc?) in the coke flavoring syrup that aren’t so great for you.
There's many different sweeteners each of them has its own lifecycle in our body.In general you can eat them safely, most of the studies showing their negative effects are poorly conducted inconclusive experiments (asparthame especially). The other half shows adverse reactions in mice, which have a very different digestion.The point of sweeteners is that you do not digest them, they leave your body with the same structure they had when they entered.I would avoid stevia though, I th
Just stay away from the artificial sweeteners. They are also shown to cause insulin spikes similar to sugar, and in turn they are no better.
Yes, it was on the frontpage of HN a few weeks ago. Off the top of my head the results were that certain artificial sweeteners spike insulin and some don't.
Yes, but needs an asterisk. Artificial sweeteners, like aspartame, are correlated with increased consumption: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892765/#s3titl...