Artificial Sweetners - Blood Sugar Spike!

viragoeap

May I have your views please.

I enjoy flavoured waters and regularly chew sugerfree gum and eat sugerfree mints. However, I've read recently that the body treats sweeteners similar to sugar in it's production of insulin. If this was the case, wouldn't our diabetic friends suffer more? I must admit, the more sweeteners I have, the more I want, which is a similar reaction I get to sugar!

RaeSThompson

I am not a doctor, but I do have type 2 diabetes. Artificial sweeteners don't affect my insulin, but they do seem to trigger the same brain responses that regular sugars do. One of those affects is the sugar crave : the more you have, the more you want.

Matt_Wild

May I have your views please.

I enjoy flavoured waters and regularly chew sugerfree gum and eat sugerfree mints. However, I've read recently that the body treats sweeteners similar to sugar in it's production of insulin. If this was the case, wouldn't our diabetic friends suffer more? I must admit, the more sweeteners I have, the more I want, which is a similar reaction I get to sugar!

They don't touch insulin nor do they touch glucose.

Any craving is literally in your head. Psychosomatic, not chemically based in terms of bodily response.

Studies:

aspartame
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2182973
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1946186

saccharin
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7652029
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3046854

acesulfame
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9884024