Sweeteners making you fat!?

How many of you out there have heard about how sweeteners making you fat? Well i guess you only know it wont because of its reduced sugar content. Right?
I want to talk about how artificial sweeteners will make a person fat because i've noticed there are alot confusions and misunderstanding on the application of the non-caloric sweeteners.


Artificial sweeteners and the huge list of products sweetened with them are marketed to you relentlessly as "healthy foods" or "healthier" than sugar or corn syrup sweetened products. But are they really?

Just to clarify, some of the most popular artificial sweeteners on the market today are:

Splenda (sucralose)
Aspartame
Saccharine
Acesulfame Potassium (aka - acesulfame K)

There substances can be found in almost every "diet" drink, ice creams, most low-carb products and almost all reduced sugar products. To make the whole story more interesting, even most protein powder are loaded with these artificial sweeteners too. (just take a look on the products you will be able to find those contents)

The truth is that artificial sweeteners are not even close to being healthy, and as you'll discover in a minute, can easily be just as bad for you, if not worse, than sugar or corn syrup. Most people think that they are doing something good for themselves by choosing the "diet" drinks or "lite" yogurts compared to the sugar-laden versions, but the problem is that you're exposing yourself to a whole new set of problems with the artificially sweetened drinks and foods.

I'm sure you already know the problems with sugar or high fructose corn syrup sweetened products. The excess empty calories, blood sugar spike, and resulting insulin surge this creates in your body not only promotes fat gain, but also stimulates your appetite further, making things even worse.

On the other hand, artificial sweeteners save you calories, but there's growing evidence that they can increase your appetite for sweets and other carbohydrates causing you to eat more later in the day anyway. Therefore, you don't really save any calories at all. Also, studies have shown that artificial sweeteners can stimulate high insulin levels in your body too, which again can promote fat storage.

All of the 4 artificial sweeteners listed above are nasty chemicals that the human body is simply not meant to ingest. However, most of us are ingesting a whole lot of these chemicals on a daily basis. Aside from the problems I touched on so far, other health issues that have been related to artificial sweeteners in scientific studies as well as observations are:

-some have been linked to potential cancer risks
-negative effects on the liver, kidneys, and other organs
-stimulating cravings
-gastrointestinal problems
-developmental problems in children and fetuses
-headaches
-and too many more issues to list


Now some of the above potential health problems are definitely not proven as fact in studies. However, some of them have been shown in animal studies given high doses. Regardless of the fact that any real health problems for actual human use are not proven yet, I don't know about you, but I'd rather protect myself and steer clear of these possibly dangerous artificial chemicals.

Of course, despite all of the health issues potentially associated with artificial sweeteners, the companies that sell the products will continue to claim that they are fully safe and they have studies that prove that they are safe. The bottom line is that the body was not designed to deal with foreign substances like artificial sweeteners.

Get more advices to know more and clearly on how to control the daily sweeteners intake. By knowing better this can better adjust yourself to lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

There are ways to help you to reduce the sugar level inside your body by assessing yourself in a more systematic and thorough way. Know yourself better.