Monday 12 September 2016

Study active people with a BMI of 23.5 and sweetener makes no difference to weight. Go figure.

Study active people with a BMI of 23.5 and sweetener makes no difference to weight. Go figure.

People were eating ~1900 Cal/day - around what I eat or maybe a little more. Unless they were drinking a lot of pop, the calories aren't going to make a lot of difference and the weight could be as simple as retaining water. Needs a much larger sample size and longer study period.
http://www.weightymatters.ca/2016/09/if-you-swap-sugar-for-artificial.html
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14 comments:

  1. Gene Chiu12 September 2016 at 19:50

    It wasn't a blind study because 83% of the subjects were able to correctly identify which group they were in. I would have like to have seen the result of people who either didn't know or were wrong about which group they were in.

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  2. Puleen Patel12 September 2016 at 20:03

    Just seeing this post makes me want to open a can of CocaCola, but I won't.

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  3. Cass Morrison12 September 2016 at 20:10

    I like the stuff with lime in it.

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  4. Michael Ireland12 September 2016 at 22:18

    I just find that most artificial sweeteners taste bad, so I actually eat/drink less of it (LOL)! Actually, we use xylitol (which tastes amazing) in our house for all our sweetening, so ... maybe I do eat more! Not for the reasons in the study, perhaps, but ... now I'm all self-conscious ;)

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  5. Cass Morrison12 September 2016 at 22:36

    I've stopped with a lot of sugar and right now we're using some stevia a friend gave us. Sugar has some nice undertones for flavour though.

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  6. Gene Chiu13 September 2016 at 00:13

    I used to like dirty l diet drinks because the taste less sweet. I decided to go back to the real stuff after hearing about other potential health risks with artificial sweeteners.

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  7. Michael Ireland13 September 2016 at 02:51

    Cass Morrison next time you swing by a health food store, pick up a small bag of xylitol and try it out - there are a zillion brands, but it's like the difference between Rogers sugar and Redpath sugar. They charge a ridiculous sum for it, though, irrespective of brand ... it's significantly less expensive online. I won't launch into the long list of why it's awesome (wikipedia can tell you that), but I will tell you that it tastes fantastic, almost identical to sugar, only better! It's produced from birch trees and corn cobs.

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  8. Cass Morrison13 September 2016 at 06:15

    I have lots of sucralose and now this Truvia so I won't be needing sweetener any time soon:) Xylitol sounds like a good option just because of the glycemic index thing.

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  9. Michael Ireland13 September 2016 at 09:46

    Sucralose is (in my opinion) the worst, in part due to it's awful flavour. Sure, it's sweetish, but it has that almost unbearable aftertaste! I have a bit of Splenda in my cupboard because my dad likes it o.O. but I just can't stand putting it in anything haha!

    Anyhoo, put xylitol on your radar, and if you ever have the opportunity to try some, you really should just for fun!

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  10. Adella Wright14 September 2016 at 07:35

    Sugar leaves a cloying aftertaste to my tongue and upsets my stomach. I prefer the bitter kick of aspertame, but mostly just prefer less sweetener of any kind.

    I started chewing gum with xylitol when I was pregnant to help a certain back up my gut was experiencing. It's great but be warned it can promote serious regularity ;-)

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  11. Ian St-Onge14 September 2016 at 13:26

    Plote

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  12. Michael Ireland14 September 2016 at 13:27

    Adella Wright yeah, that's true. Since xylitol is treated like soluble fibre, it tends to cause that effect - at least for awhile. Some people tend to get pretty funky flatulence for awhile, too. I've been eating it for so long now (well over a decade) that my guts don't have any gastrointestinal anomalies any more, no matter how much I eat ;)

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