Negative Effects of Artificial Sweeteners In Your Diet

Considering a Diet Coke or Coke Zero because you crave the yummy taste of a soda but don’t want the health risks of the massive amounts of sugar and calories involved with a regular soda? Well, you might want to read this article first.

Women across the world have long decided to go for the artificial sweeteners that are touted as a replacement for the unhealthy aspects of sugar. Even the disadvantages of most products that used artificial sweeteners, such as a warped taste, faded over time as one’s taste buds got used to the taste, never mind the added overall plus — no calories!

An article on a study recently found in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) confronts the claim that artificial sweeteners are in fact, without any risk.

David S. Ludwig, MD., PhD, professor at Harvard University and Founding Director of the Optimal Weight for Life clinic at Children’s Hospital in Boston, as well as the author of the study, states there are three very important risks to take notice of when regarding the consumption of artificial sweeteners.

Consuming artificial sweeteners can bewilder your body.

The division the sweet flavor of artificial sweeteners and the calorie absorption can send your body’s regulatory system(that which controls your weight and hunger) into a tizzy. A study on rodents that were fed saccharin(an artificial sweetener) put on pounds versus their counterparts who dined on sucrose(regular sugar)

As long as one continually consumes artficial sweeteners, one will have dampened taste buds.

Artificial sweeteners are a hundred times as sweet as regular sugar. Taste buds compensate for whatever extreme flavor a particular item possesses. For example, if you take a bite of a lemon and then eat something sweet, it tastes extra sweet.

Your taste buds get used to doing things regularly just like any other part of your body, so if you are consuming extra sweet items such as artificial sweeteners on a regular basis, you will find that naturally sweet things such as fruit, don’t taste as good; it is the same with healthy foods such as grains and vegatables. This will negatively effect your diet in the long run.

There is still no clarity as to long-term effects of regular consumption.

Although studies have been done on artificial studies in the areas of diseases, not enough exist that are geared towards weight gain over time. According to Dr. Ludwig:

“If trends in consumption continue, the nation will, in effect, have embarked on a massive, uncontrolled, and inadvertent public health experiment. Although many synthetic chemicals have been added to the food supply in recent years, artificial sweeteners in beverages stand out in their ability to interact with evolutionarily ancient sensorineural pathways at remarkably high affinity.”