Artificial Sweeteners
Many people consider that, by using artificial sweeteners, they can eat anything, with no limits: candies, diet soda, cookies. They don’t contain sugar so they are not fattening! , they say. Nothing more wrong! A healthy alimentation shouldn’t contain artificial sweeteners.
Recent studies have shown that people who use these surrogates gain more weight than the ones that don’t use these products.
The reason is that artificial sweeteners stimulate hunger sensation, increase appetite, favors calories intake, increasing the need for sweets, in general.
Artificial sweeteners are chemical substances that surpass sugar’s sweetening capacity by up to 2000 times.Few people know that using artificial sweeteners attracts a series of major problems.
Saccharine
It is the most popular sugar replacement and the most dangerous one. Saccharine favors bladder cancer. In Canada, this sweetener is forbidden and in USA, the products that contain Saccharine Must use a special label.
Aspartame
It is a substance used to sweeten beverages and deserts. It is the only sugar replacement without calories but it is suspected that aspartame is responsible for many dermatological conditions.
Acesulfame K
It is the most recent artificial sweetener on the market. Till now, there are no known negative side effects of this sugar replacement.
Cyclamate
It is suspected that this substance favors tumors development.