http://www.becomenatural.com/blog/2007/04/aspartame-sweet-controversy/ "we are what we think, what we eat and what we breathe" Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:25:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.becomenatural.com/blog/2007/04/aspartame-sweet-controversy/comment-page-1/#comment-935 Sugar (sucrose) vs artificial sweeteners, wich is better :: BecomeNatural . com Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:37:05 +0000 http://www.becomenatural.com/blog/2007/04/aspartame-sweet-controversy/#comment-935 [...] You get a sweet taste on the tongue when you eat sugar. That sweet taste is a signal to the liver: “there’ll be lots of blood sugar from the digestive tract in a minute or two, can’t have too much blood sugar at once, I’ll pull the blood sugar right now.” And that’s fine and dandy as long as that sweet taste really is a high-caloric fast-showing sugar. For instance candies, sweet pastries, honey, or the “health foods” grape, grape juice, or carrot juice. And similar things. But if you’ve just eaten an artificial sweetener (for instance aspartame), your liver is fooled into pulling the blood sugar, but you don’t get the corresponding blood sugar surge from the food you just ate. So you suddenly have low blood sugar, and all that comes with that: tiredness, irritation, and/or the Munchies with a capital M. You have low blood sugar, you need something sugary now. So you add sweeteners to your coffee and munch on candies, all the time. And you wonder why you simply can’t lose weight. We all react to the low blood sugar which artificial sweeteners bring with them, but it’s rare to see it that clearly. Forget about artificial sweeteners and the sweets, do magnesium, chromium, zinc, B6, and fish oils, in order to get the insulin - blood sugar system working properly. Stevia or licorice won’t fool the liver into pulling the blood sugar, but their taste isn’t just sweet. The moral of the story: use sugar or honey if you have to sweeten your coffee. And enjoy that sweet coffee: sip it slowly, don’t gulp it down. I’d also suggest ditching the “cholesterol is bad for you” idea, and eating full-fat foods: most low-fat foods are loaded with sugar. [...] [...] You get a sweet taste on the tongue when you eat sugar. That sweet taste is a signal to the liver: “there’ll be lots of blood sugar from the digestive tract in a minute or two, can’t have too much blood sugar at once, I’ll pull the blood sugar right now.” And that’s fine and dandy as long as that sweet taste really is a high-caloric fast-showing sugar. For instance candies, sweet pastries, honey, or the “health foods” grape, grape juice, or carrot juice. And similar things. But if you’ve just eaten an artificial sweetener (for instance aspartame), your liver is fooled into pulling the blood sugar, but you don’t get the corresponding blood sugar surge from the food you just ate. So you suddenly have low blood sugar, and all that comes with that: tiredness, irritation, and/or the Munchies with a capital M. You have low blood sugar, you need something sugary now. So you add sweeteners to your coffee and munch on candies, all the time. And you wonder why you simply can’t lose weight. We all react to the low blood sugar which artificial sweeteners bring with them, but it’s rare to see it that clearly. Forget about artificial sweeteners and the sweets, do magnesium, chromium, zinc, B6, and fish oils, in order to get the insulin – blood sugar system working properly. Stevia or licorice won’t fool the liver into pulling the blood sugar, but their taste isn’t just sweet. The moral of the story: use sugar or honey if you have to sweeten your coffee. And enjoy that sweet coffee: sip it slowly, don’t gulp it down. I’d also suggest ditching the “cholesterol is bad for you” idea, and eating full-fat foods: most low-fat foods are loaded with sugar. [...]

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