We already know too much sugar is bad for you ………but ARTIFICIAL sugar may be worse.
According to Alexandra Siferlin in TIME, artificial sweeteners may seem like a low- or no-calorie way to enjoy sweet food and not gain weight, but a new study links them to the opposite.
She reports:
In a report published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, in 2017, researchers analyzed 37 studies on artificial sweeteners to see if they were successful for weight management. The studies followed more than 400,000 people for about 10 years. Seven of the studies were randomized controlled trials, a type considered to be the gold standard in scientific research.
Artificial sweeteners did not appear to help people lose weight. Instead, observational studies that looked at consumption over time suggested that people who regularly consumed them—by drinking one or more artificially-sweetened beverages a day—had a higher risk for health issues like weight gain, obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
Related studies: (Get password)
- Azad 2016 — Association Between Artificially Sweetened Beverage Consumption During Pregnancy and Infant Body Mass Index.
- Araujo2014 — Exposure to non-nutritive sweeteners during pregnancy and
lactation: Impact in programming of metabolic diseases in the
progeny later in life-
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- Prenatal Exposure (and exposure via breast milk) to artificial sweeteners results in obesity.
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- Toigo 2015 — Metabolic and feeding behavior alterations provoked by prenatal
exposure to aspartame-
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- Animals exposed to aspartame prenatally consumed more sweet foods during adulthood and were more susceptible to having increased glucose, LDL and triglycerides.
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