Artificial Sweeteners

One must cut out the sugar and anything sweet in it's entirety if one wants to be healthy.... But, if one does make that sacrifice, foods that now might not seem sweet will again be sweet, like bananas and strawberries.

Artificial sweeteners may be just as bad. A new study indicates the additives can alter the body’s metabolism to make weight gain more likely. Researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science found that three sweeteners widely used in low-calorie snacks and drinks—saccharin, sucralose, and aspartame—raised blood sugar levels in mice, increasing their risk of glucose intolerance, a condition linked to obesity and diabetes. Sweeteners, the report found, “may have directly contributed to enhancing the exact epidemic that they themselves were intended to fight.”

This little article came from the 12/31 The Week Magazine.