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What else could explain drinking that poison despite the evidence outlining its toxic effects?
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Looking for unhealed emotional/psychological wounds and dealing with them lovingly helps us deal with our addictions.
References
Do Artificial Sweeteners Alter Post-Meal Glucose, Hunger Hormones?
Marlene Busko, Medscape Medical News; March 02, 2023
Drinking a no-or low-calorie non-nutritive sweetened (NNS) beverage was no different from drinking water in terms of effect on 2-hour postprandial levels of glucose and hormones related to appetite or food intake.
Drinking a sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB), however, had a different effect on postprandial levels of glucose and the hormones insulin, glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1), gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP), peptide YY (PYY), ghrelin, leptin, and glucagon.
These findings are from a new meta-analysis by Roselyn Zhang and colleagues, supported by the nonprofit organization Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences (IAFNS). The study was published recently in Nutrients.
“Non-nutritive sweeteners have no acute metabolic or endocrine effects and they are similar to water in that respect, and they show a different response from caloric sweeteners,” study author Tauseef Khan, MBBS, PhD, summarized in an interview with Medscape, following a press briefing from the IAFNS.
“Our study supports that non-nutritive sweeteners are a healthier alternative to sugar-sweetened beverages or caloric beverages,” said Khan, an epidemiologist in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, Ontario.
Most participants in the 36 trials included in the meta-analysis were healthy, he noted. However, for certain types of NNS beverages, “we had enough studies for type 2 diabetes to also assess that separately, and the results were the same: Non-nutritive sweeteners were no different from water; however, they were different from caloric sweeteners.”
Of note, none of the studies included erythritol — a sugar alcohol (polyol) increasingly used as an artificial sweetener in keto and other types of foods — which was associated with a risk for adverse cardiac events in a paper in Nature Medicine earlier this week.
Are These NNS Drinks Largely Inert?
“This [meta-analysis] implies that sweeteners are largely inert,” in terms of acute postprandial glucose and hormone response, but the review did not include newer reports that differ, Duane Mellor, PhD, RD, RNutr, who was not involved with the research, noted in an email to Medscape.
“This is possibly,” he said, because the study “only reviewed the literature up until January 2022 and therefore it missed the World Health Organization review ‘Health Effects of the Use of Non-Sugar Sweeteners’ published in April last year, and a study published in August 2022 in the journal Cell suggesting that some non-nutritive sweeteners may have a minor effect on gut microbiome and glucose response.”
