Diet Foods and Drinks aren’t Preventing Diabetes, they are Helping Cause it

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Many people have been led to believe that diet drinks are better for your health than conventionally sweetened products, that idea is completely false. Although sugar and especially high fructose corn syrup is very bad for your health, aspartame is just as bad, if not worse. Thumbnail credit: themindunleashed.org

In a first of it’s kind study published last year in Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, researchers found that consuming artificial sweeteners can interrupt the body’s normal metabolic balance, causing unwanted reactions that may lead to type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease,  excessive weight gain and metabolic syndrome. Monosodium Glutamate, also known as MSG, was found by researchers to amplify the destruction when combined with aspartame consumption.

The body doesn’t recognize these artificial sweeteners and therefore cannot metabolize them correctly. According to a statement from the study’s  researchers,

Moreover, people who regularly consume artificial sweeteners show altered activation patterns in the brain’s pleasure centers in response to sweet taste, suggesting that these products may not satisfy the desire for sweets. Similarly, studies in mice and rats have shown that consumption of noncaloric sweeteners dampens physiological responses to sweet taste, causing the animals to overindulge in calorie-rich, sweet-tasting food and pack on extra pounds.

Taken together, the findings suggest that artificial sweeteners increase the risk for health problems to an extent similar to that of sugar and may also exacerbate the negative effects of sugar. “These studies suggest that telling people to drink diet sodas could backfire as a public health message,” Swithers says. “So the current public health message to limit the intake of sugars needs to be expanded to limit intake of all sweeteners, not just sugars.”

If you wish to keep you and your family healthy, it’s best to avoid both conventionally and artificially sweetened foods. If you must use sweeteners, then check out this helpful guide to natural sweeteners that aren’t as destructive for your health.

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