Aspartame in diet sodas causes diabets and weight gain?!
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geeness2004 wrote: »Have know that aspartame is not a good thing after my kids had a reaction to the stuff when they were young. To make matters worst sugar free was included in a lot of medical products. Would not use then and will not touch now. Believe aspartame to very dangerous to all. It does however made chemical companies a lot of pennies?????
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geeness2004 wrote: »Have know that aspartame is not a good thing after my kids had a reaction to the stuff when they were young. To make matters worst sugar free was included in a lot of medical products. Would not use then and will not touch now. Believe aspartame to very dangerous to all. It does however made chemical companies a lot of pennies?????
To answer your apparently very desperate question (judging by the amount of question marks) yes. The companies that sell aspartame are definitely earning many pennies from those sales. But probably not in penny form. Largely because they don't want to pay extra employees to do nothing but roll pennys all day long :-)13 -
geeness2004 wrote: »Have know that aspartame is not a good thing after my kids had a reaction to the stuff when they were young. To make matters worst sugar free was included in a lot of medical products. Would not use then and will not touch now. Believe aspartame to very dangerous to all. It does however made chemical companies a lot of pennies?????
Yes, some people have negative reactions to aspartame, just like some people have negative reactions to peanuts or shellfish. This doesn't make the product bad, it just means that those people should avoid that product. Aspartame is the single most studied artificial sweetener on the planet and has been deemed safe for human consumption (I believe the thread on aspartame was linked up-thread of this).
Oh, by the way - if we actually banned all of the foods that can cause bad reactions across the population of the planet, there would literally be nothing left on the planet that we could eat!28 -
I love how people read: "The variables make it difficult to pinpoint whether diet soda consumption alone is the cause of negative health outcomes, or whether it’s the culmination of a number of factors ... I lean towards the latter, since nothing in nutrition or health exists in a vacuum" and interpret it as: "DIET SODA MAKES YOU FAT!"12
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In the last 5 weeks I've lost 8.8lbs. I only have 5lbs left to lose. Of all those days, I've had 1 16.9oz bottle of Diet Coke EVERY day.
Weight loss is based ONLY on a calorie deficit. Diet Soda has NO calories, so how, logically, could it cause weight gain?9 -
There is one interesting statistic. People that choose to drink water instead of diet sodas tend to weigh less. Why? We may never know. I read it in Prevention Magazine. I'm not going to spend the time looking it up.34
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Good news. Diet soda does not cause diabetes or weight gain.
Bad news; being overweight increases your risk for insulin resistance and diabetes.
More good news, by modestly restricting your calories you can get to a healthier weight...while continuing to enjoy your sodas. Maybe skipping the fries.
My advice, hide the diet sodas when your parents visit, including the empties, and have some empty vodka bottles and a pack of cigarette papers strewn artistically around your room. Give them something new to worry about.
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I currently live under their roof at the moment. Had to move back home.0 -
TheWJordinWJordin wrote: »There is one interesting statistic. People that choose to drink water instead of diet sodas tend to weigh less. Why? We may never know. I read it in Prevention Magazine. I'm not going to spend the time looking it up.
Well, I'm convinced. Time to go home, folks! Leave your diet coke by the door on your way out!17 -
The two I had in my room at the moment are diet root beer ...Wal-Mart off brand and coke zero. When my fiance and i go out I get a no or low cal soda if I want a soda or water depending on my budget. I've been drinking no cal. Sparkling water too.
I don't get how people say also soda is bad cause it makes you wanna eat more cause you don't feel full. But my belly does the opposite LOL3 -
kristen8000 wrote: »In the last 5 weeks I've lost 8.8lbs. I only have 5lbs left to lose. Of all those days, I've had 1 16.9oz bottle of Diet Coke EVERY day.
Weight loss is based ONLY on a calorie deficit. Diet Soda has NO calories, so how, logically, could it cause weight gain?
Well you see, that's because you only drink 16.9oz a day. 17oz is the magic limit where it starts adding weight.21 -
Aspartame still triggers an insulin response. It's garbage don't eat it at all. Too much insulin leads to diabesity. Lol63
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Aspartame still triggers an insulin response. It's garbage don't eat it at all. Too much insulin leads to diabesity. Lol
But see, it doesn't. There are thousands of diabetics all over the country who track their insulin/blood sugar quite closely. And every single one of them would be able to definitively tell you if drinking a diet soda caused them problems. That is literally not how it works.
And the American Diabetes Association suggests that diabetics have diet drinks to help them stop actually spiking insulin with sugary drinks.
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Aspartame still triggers an insulin response. It's garbage don't eat it at all. Too much insulin leads to diabesity. Lol
Uh...no...no it doesn't. If it did, diabetics wouldn't be able to drink it...and diabetics drink it.
Also, eating everyday food will trigger an insulin response...because that's how your body is supposed to work...if you don't get an insulin response then you're unwell and your body isn't functioning properly...little research perhaps...18 -
Aspartame still triggers an insulin response. It's garbage don't eat it at all. Too much insulin leads to diabesity. Lol
Too much protein will trigger an insulin response, so what? Insulin response is the body's natural reaction to food intake and the means that is used to store energy in the muscles (insulin is the gatekeeper to storing glucose in the muscle for later use as an energy source).
Insulin does not cause diabetes - if it did, why would the medical community use insulin as part of the treatment for diabetes?!?!?16 -
Aspartame still triggers an insulin response. It's garbage don't eat it at all. Too much insulin leads to diabesity. Lol
Do you have any evidence to back up this claim? I mean, I'm a former T2D that reversed all my diabetic markers from being on a consistent energy deficit and being physically active, also reducing bf% and improving body composition. I was on a moderate-high carb, low fat diet for the majority of my diet and drank a buttload of diet soda. I have lab results indicating insulin sensitivity with basal insulin as low as 2 IU/mL with a HOMA-IR score of 1.2 currently. So.. where does aspartame or diet soda play a role in insulin response and subsequent diabesity?19 -
Aspartame still triggers an insulin response. It's garbage don't eat it at all. Too much insulin leads to diabesity. Lol
Too much protein will trigger an insulin response, so what? Insulin response is the body's natural reaction to food intake and the means that is used to store energy in the muscles (insulin is the gatekeeper to storing glucose in the muscle for later use as an energy source).
Insulin does not cause diabetes - if it did, why would the medical community use insulin as part of the treatment for diabetes?!?!?
This also. Too much insulin cause hypoglycemia, which is low blood sugar. Not diabetes.
Diabetes develops from insulin resistance, not overproduction. Diabetes is caused by a bunch of different things to varying degrees, like obesity, age, a bad diet, and genetic factors.
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