{"id":486,"date":"2016-07-22T22:33:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T21:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pilatesfitness.co.uk\/blog\/?p=486"},"modified":"2016-07-22T22:42:47","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T21:42:47","slug":"why-artificial-sweeteners-are-bad-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pilatesfitness.co.uk\/blog\/?p=486","title":{"rendered":"Why Artificial Sweeteners Are BAD For You"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sugar is Bad but Artificial Sweeteners are WORSE<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"sweeteners\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Animal studies suggest that artificial sweeteners may be addictive.\u00a0 A 2007 paper reports that, in studies of rats exposed to cocaine and then given a choice between intravenous cocaine or oral saccharine, most chose saccharin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A 2008 paper<\/a> in Obesity<\/em> showed that those who used artificial sweeteners gained more weight<\/strong> over a seven- to eight-year period than those who did not.<\/p>\n

A large study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition<\/a> in 2013 which involved almost 70,000 women over 14 years found that subjects consuming sugar sweetened beverages were at an increased risk for becoming type 2 diabetics. Their risk was increased by around 34%. This was as expected and similar increases had been seen mostly in US populations for a while. What was interesting and perhaps unexpected was the finding that those women who chose to drink sugar-free, artificially-sweetened beverages experienced double an increase in risk for diabetes compared to the sugar group!<\/p>\n

A 2014 study<\/a> then showed that\u00a0that the reason people become less glucose tolerant when drinking artificially sweetened beverages is because consumption of artificial sweeteners causes profound changes in the gut bacteria (microbiota).<\/p>\n

Certainly, drinking sugar-free beverages is good advice. You just need to NOT to add artificial sweeteners to them!<\/p>\n

REFERENCES<\/strong><\/p>\n

2007:
\nIntense sweetness surpasses cocaine reward<\/em>
\nhttp:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/17668074<\/a><\/p>\n

2008:
\nFueling the Obesity Epidemic? Artificially Sweetened Beverage Use and Long-term Weight Gain<\/em>
\nhttp:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1038\/oby.2008.284\/abstract;jsessionid=4FD5565601D88142CEFE6EE9822DA2C5.f04t02<\/a><\/p>\n

2013:<\/p>\n

Consumption of artificially and sugar-sweetened beverages and incident type 2 diabetes in the Etude Epid\u00e9miologique aupr\u00e8s des femmes de la Mutuelle G\u00e9n\u00e9rale de l’Education Nationale\u2013European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition cohor<\/em>t
\nhttp:\/\/ajcn.nutrition.org\/content\/97\/3\/517.long<\/a><\/p>\n

2014:
\nArtificial sweeteners induce glucose intolerance by altering the gut microbiota<\/a><\/em>
\nhttp:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nature13793.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Worrisome Diabetes Advice From Reader’s Digest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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