Why The Obesity Epidemic May Be Due To Artificial Sweeteners

Gloria · Post by **Gloria** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 7:38 pm

Sheila,

I never would have associated MC with a hearing loss due to dehydration. How unfortunate that it seems to be a permanent loss. I wonder if the surgery would be similar to the surgery that children have done to put tubes in the ears. I don't believe that surgery is very serious. My daughter had tubes put in several times.

I hope someone can come up with a solution that will restore your hearing in that ear.

Gloria

dgshelton · Post by **dgshelton** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:06 pm

Tex - I wonder if the use of artificial sweeteners is different for someone with type 1 diabetes. My pancreas doesn't make any insulin and I haven't noticed the need for more insulin after using artificial sweeteners. I don't believe it makes me crave carbs, either. What is strange with type 1 is that I become extremely hungry when my blood sugar is high and don't feel like eating and even feel nauseous when it is low. It would be interesting to see what would happen with diabetic rats.

Hugs,

Post by **tex** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:34 pm

Denise,

I'm certainly no expert on diabetes, but yes, I'm pretty sure that the situation would be entirely different for someone unable to produce insulin. That changes the whole equation. I'm sure that having counter-intuitive hunger responses to blood sugar levels is bound to complicate the situation even more.

Hugs,
Tex

Zizzle · Post by **Zizzle** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 1:49 pm

More from Dr. Mercola on this topic today. Seems even the diabetes association knows they are trouble.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/artic ... u-fat.aspx

In one study, people who drank two or more diet sodas a day experienced waist size increases that were six times greater than those of people who didn't drink diet soda. A second study that found that aspartame (NutraSweet) raised blood sugar levels in diabetes-prone mice.

Post by **tex** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 2:23 pm

While I'm certainly no fan of artificial sweeteners, (like Dr. Mercola, I consider them to be, {along with gluten, the Health Care Reform Bill, and the claim that the burning of fossil fuels is a primary cause of the age-old cyclic phase known as global warming}, one of the biggest scam's ever perpetrated on the human race), we have to remember that the reason why many people choose artificial sweeteners in the first place, is because their waist size seems determined to grow, regardless of what they eat. The studies cited, (except for the mouse study, of course), are interesting from an epidemiological point of view, but they certainly don't prove any cause and effect relationship.

Please don't misunderstand me, I think that it should be illegal to manufacture and sell artificial sweeteners, but someone should do some random, double-blind testing, in order to provide some scientific evidence to support all those claims, (on both sides of the argument).

Thanks for the link. I'm glad that I never could stand the bitter after-taste of diet drinks.

Tex

sarkin · Post by **sarkin** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 2:36 pm

Tex,

I agree - and to take you up on your eloquent post on this topic (where I look forward to replying), I think no one should put eat things that are not food. I thought that before Michael Pollan, and before MC and my discovery that gluten isn't 'food' for me... but if ya can't classify something into some food group or other (and 'artificial sweeteners' is NOT a food group), ya gotta wonder whether eating it is really such a good idea. Seems to me that best-case scenario is it doesn't do any harm. Worst case, though...

--Sara