Artificial Sweetners
Well I see that everyone in Face Book is freaking out about Artificial Sweetners again. They're posting about how it can lead to heart attacks, obesity, diabetes etc if you drink two or more diet sodas. They don't research what they post. They see it on the news and the news websites and freak out and start posting. WTH is wrong with people? Will they never learn to actually go and do the research themselves before posting??
This is really sad to see all that panic and pointing fingers at people claiming that they will have heart problems, get overweight, get diabetes and so on.
All you RD's CDE's and RN's please chime in on this one. Help clear up this misinformation please.
I just went through this. My blood sugar kept spiking after breakfast, never has before. I had my go 2 piece of whole grain toast with a top of peanut butter, and my green tea. It went from 79 to 241!
I narrowed it down to sweet n low. I changed from honey in my teas to sweet n low, read articles on how artificial sweetners don't raise blood sugar. Well it did mine. Green tea without any sweetener, no spike.
I’m so sick of people thinking that artificial sweeteners are bad we need something with a bit of flavour, I don’t use the whole packet when I put it on my steel oats.In my classes for diabetes they recommend artificial sweeteners, I don’t care what people say, I use Splenda. Can’t believe everything you read on the internet.
People don't understand proportionality. It's possible that artificial sweeteners increase the risk of cancer, insulin resistance, and other bad things. Pretty much everything does in large enough quantities. But how much of these sweeteners do you need to consume? In what form? Compared to how much diabetes does increase risks of heart disease and cancers, it's most likely negligible.
Let's not forget that for us diabetics, we're comparing them to the effect of glucose/fructose/sucrose on our bodies, which is what got us where we are in the first place.
I'm an engineer, and one thing you learn is that you address the most important and most urgent problem first. Once you're done, you move down the scale.
