These nuances need to be considered.
Sweeteners are substances capable of imparting a sweet taste, but not containing sugar. To include natural sweeteners like fructose and stevia extract and obtained chemically aspartame, saccharine, Sucralose, xylitol and other compounds.
Often sweeteners are advertised as “safe” alternatives to table sugar and added to “diet” products because they don’t contain calories. However, they are zero calories does not mean that they are really safe for health and useful for those who want to lose weight.
Why do nutritionists believe bread is dangerous and harmful, while the people were eating it for centuries and had no ill?
Fructose: benefit or harm?
Despite the fact that fructose because of its lower glycemic index are recommended for diabetics and is a totally natural product (it contains in the fruit, and the usual table sugar is out of it at 50%), modern nutritionists tend to think of fruit sugar harmful product.
Research suggests that regular consumption of fructose leads to metabolic disorders and enhances the resistant to insulin, reducing the body’s ability to use carbohydrates as an energy source, leading to higher blood sugar levels and the development of obesity(1).
Why fruit sugar is bad?
The problem is that pure fructose is not found in nature. Eating sweet fruit, you send in the stomach not only fruit sugar, but also fiber (dietary fiber), influencing the process of absorption of fructose. In fact, fiber helps to normalize blood sugar levels.
In addition, eat three oranges a lot harder than drinking a glass of orange juice, squeezed from the same oranges. Must be treated even to the natural juices as pure treats that are acceptable to eat in limited quantities, and not as useful products.
Chemical sweeteners
Saccharin was the first artificial sweetener, opened in 1879. For a long time it was considered completely safe, however in the 1960s were born of suspicion that it may cause cancer(2). Currently, saccharin is permitted in food, however, food companies prefer not to use it.
In place of the saccharin came aspartame, opened in 1965. He contains in most diet products, carbonated beverages, chewing gums and even medications. It contains virtually no calories, while being hundreds of times sweeter than regular sugar.
Does aspartame health?
From a theoretical point of view, aspartame is not able to affect the human metabolism, but in the scientific community there is no consensus regarding the safety of this sweetener for your health. In addition, aspartame is banned for use for people suffering from phenylketonuria.
Despite the fact that aspartame is not a poison or carcinogen, it is one of the few substances that can go directly into the human brain. Critics say that it affects the synthesis of serotonin (the happy hormone) and can provoke the development of Alzheimer’s disease.
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