Surprise, artificial sweeteners are not a weight loss silver bullet.
Can be helpful to reduce calorie intake but doesn't guarantee weight loss because people are not bomb calorimeters.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/new-review-of-artificial-sweeteners/
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Of the sugar substitutes, I stick with stevia & monkfruit. I'm leery of xylitol, erythritol and definitely of aspartame, sucralose & sacchrin
ReplyDeleteXylitol for the win! It causes gastrointestinal anomalies in the beginning (gas), but after awhile it's no issue. Since your normal digestive pathway produces several grams of it per day anyway (especially if you eat berries), it doesn't take long.
ReplyDeleteXylitol isn't particularly artificial, tho ...
But more to the point, low calorie sweeteners can cause people to have a false sense of security, and end up over-eating, in part because they think they can.
I like sucralose but have moved more towards candy and unsweetened drinks - that's what you mean right Michael Ireland? Sigh. I don't think it's the spoons of sugar Gareth Owen but the huge pop servings as well as hidden sugars in processed foods. May try stevia Rodney S.
ReplyDeleteSoda water with lemon/lime is a great way to get off sugary soda
ReplyDeleteHaha, I actually strongly dislike the flavour of sucralose, which is fine with me considering its murky safety (health and environment) record. But I buy a 20kg bag of xylitol online every year or so for use in baking or other cooking (instead of sugar). But I, too, have a soda stream thingie and we drink fizzy water (with or without squeezed lemon) all the time. No pop for us, diet or otherwise!
ReplyDeleteNo soda stream for me as it's an Israeli product and I can do without it. I should try xylitol because it's usable for cooking.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you've seen me write about xylitol before, and there's plenty of research easily accessible on tha interwebz (lots of hype crap too, though). Here's the synopsis:
ReplyDelete- It's a 5-carbon sugar alcohol
- Commercially produced from hardwood and sometimes corn cobs
- Glycemic index of 7
- Can be classed as a soluble fibre under certain conditions
- 2.4 calories per gram, although it's considered a net zero sweetener.
- Negative heat of solution (gets cold as it dissolves, which is fun)
- Toxic to dogs
- Toxic to S. mutans (responsible for cavities, among other things)
- Works with saliva in the re-mineralization process for teeth (helps the repair of tooth decay)
- Also produced during normal metabolic processes
- Naturally occurs in notable amounts in various berries and a bunch of other foods.
If you've never eaten it before and you suddenly binge on it (let's say you snarf a good couple of tablespoons of it in one go), then you're gonna get an upset stomach and probably gas. With a controlled introduction to it (like using it to sweeten coffee), your body ramps up production of the digestive enzymes, etc and you're good to go.
If you buy it at health food stores, they usually hose you on price. I buy it from xylabrands.com - Xylitol Canada | The Leader in North American made Xylitol Products but even their prices have been going up in the last while. I've seen it in a local Co-Op and at Superstore.
My mom doesn't like it because she can't seem to get over the gas phase. LOL.