Hello all!
I am on a quest to get as many people to quit drinking diet soda and adding artificial sweeteners to everything as possible. This is why (no, it's not about cancer):
When you eat something sweet, your pancreas releases insulin in order to counteract what it believes is going to be an increase in your blood sugar. This still occurs when you eat artificially sweetened things. But, because your blood sugar didn't actually get higher because you didn't actually ingest sugar, your blood sugar drops-by a lot. What does your body want you to do when your blood sugar is low?!? EAT! So what do you do?!? You eat! How much do you eat? Well that depends the person, obviously. But I can tell you this-you are probably going to eat more calories that you would have originally consumed if you had just added real sugar to your tea (or what-have-you). There are only 15 calories in a teaspoon of sugar, 20 calories in a teaspoon of honey (my personal suggestion), and 143 calories in a can of regular Coke. Now, I also don't recommend you drink soda, but that is a whole other discussion. So, in short, by ingesting fake sugar, you will probably end up eating more calories than you would have if you had just eaten the real thing.
I explained this to my parents, who used to add Splenda to their coffee every morning, and (thank god!) they stopped. I spoke with them again about 2 or 3 weeks later and my dad couldn't believe it. He was seeing better, feeling better, and no longer had pain in his kidney area-he explained to me that he had felt like he had a constant kidney infection for quite some time-and his pain was gone! My mom also told me, although I didn't really want to know this, that my dad would have needed to start taking a certain blue pill, if you catch my drift, if things hadn't changed.
So I beg you, for your own health and well-being, (please please please!) stop ingesting fake sugar. Just because these things have been approved by the FDA doesn't mean they are healthy. We really do not know or understand the long term affects they may have on our bodies (cancer or otherwise), and after what my dad experienced, I will never touch this stuff again!
I am on a quest to get as many people to quit drinking diet soda and adding artificial sweeteners to everything as possible. This is why (no, it's not about cancer):
When you eat something sweet, your pancreas releases insulin in order to counteract what it believes is going to be an increase in your blood sugar. This still occurs when you eat artificially sweetened things. But, because your blood sugar didn't actually get higher because you didn't actually ingest sugar, your blood sugar drops-by a lot. What does your body want you to do when your blood sugar is low?!? EAT! So what do you do?!? You eat! How much do you eat? Well that depends the person, obviously. But I can tell you this-you are probably going to eat more calories that you would have originally consumed if you had just added real sugar to your tea (or what-have-you). There are only 15 calories in a teaspoon of sugar, 20 calories in a teaspoon of honey (my personal suggestion), and 143 calories in a can of regular Coke. Now, I also don't recommend you drink soda, but that is a whole other discussion. So, in short, by ingesting fake sugar, you will probably end up eating more calories than you would have if you had just eaten the real thing.
I explained this to my parents, who used to add Splenda to their coffee every morning, and (thank god!) they stopped. I spoke with them again about 2 or 3 weeks later and my dad couldn't believe it. He was seeing better, feeling better, and no longer had pain in his kidney area-he explained to me that he had felt like he had a constant kidney infection for quite some time-and his pain was gone! My mom also told me, although I didn't really want to know this, that my dad would have needed to start taking a certain blue pill, if you catch my drift, if things hadn't changed.
So I beg you, for your own health and well-being, (please please please!) stop ingesting fake sugar. Just because these things have been approved by the FDA doesn't mean they are healthy. We really do not know or understand the long term affects they may have on our bodies (cancer or otherwise), and after what my dad experienced, I will never touch this stuff again!