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Article Summary: Recent studies have shown how artificial sweeteners can disrupt your body's blood sugar controls causing obesity and diabetes in some cases. The sweeteners change the microbiome, or the population of bacteria in the digestive system, The sweeteners cause the level of bacteria to rise higher than normal while eating and fall slowly. Scientists have found that the sudden change in the microbiome can cause obesity and diabetes. Artificial sweeteners were found to help lose weight at first, but other researchers found that it actually made you gain more weight than with normal sugar. Researchers tested this theory on mice by feeding them different sweeteners mixed in with their water and found that the mice started to not tolerate large amounts of glucose. The body needs glucose because if you have too little or too much of it, you are at a higher risk of getting diabetes.
Connection with Health Class: This connects to health class because we've had a whole unit on how to keep your body healthy and fit.
Question: Do you use artificial sweeteners in your drinks? If so, what are some ways you could get off using them?
I usually don't use artificial sweeteners but when I do it's for tea. I get off using them by putting honey in my tea instead of artificial sweeteners or regular sugar.
ReplyDeleteI don't use artificial sweeteners in my drinks, but I do know people who do. I think this is an important article to share with them. According to the article the sweeteners could be doing the opposite of what people want them to do, so we should warn them of the negative effects.
ReplyDeleteI don't use artificial sweeteners but people could stop using them by trying to get used to drinking healthier drinks for their own good
ReplyDeleteIt's not often that I have drinks containing artificial sweeteners, more less consume anything artificial. But for those who I know that do, I would suggest them to substitute it with more natural sweeteners like honey or agave nectar.
ReplyDeleteI have never used an artificial sweetener nor do i plan to use them in the future. I think at first they must have been healthy, but then when the companies who made them started gaining a lot of money they probably stopped spending their money on the proper ingredients so they started using cheap and unhealthy ingredients.
ReplyDeleteI do not use artificial sweeteners in my drinks because I know how bad they are for you. I usually use regular sugar but I rarely use any sweeteners in general.
ReplyDeleteI do not use artificial sweeteners in my drinks and I never had. To get people to stop, just tell them to use natural sugar instead, or tell them to not use it
ReplyDeleteI have never used artificial sweeteners and I never will. I think we can get people to stop using artificial sweeteners by telling them to use regular sugar and to tell them the effects, that are listed above, of using artificial sweeteners in their drinks
ReplyDeleteI agree. I think warning ourselves and others about the dangers of artificial sweeteners is a great idea to increase our health.
DeleteI have used artificial sweeteners before. I only use them when I drink lemonade. The lemonade is usually sour. I can try to avoid using artificial sweeteners by not ordering lemonade and using real sugar instead of artificial sweeteners. Maybe people would not have to use artificial sweeteners if the lemonade people ordered at restaurants wasn't sour all the time.
ReplyDeleteNo, I do not use artificial sweeteners. I only use real sugar in my foods and drinks.
ReplyDeleteI do not use artificial sweeteners. Most things that I eat or drink do not require sugar, but if the do I would use real sugar.
ReplyDeleteI usually don't use artificial sweeteners unless it's for like iced tea or something. How we can avoid using these sweeteners is by using honey or using regular sugar.
ReplyDeleteI don't use artificial sugar at all because I find that I don't like the taste of it. It's similar to how I strongly dislike the taste of diet soda as well.
ReplyDeleteI feel like I can taste the artificial stuff in it so it keeps me away from anything like Splenda. Also i wouldn't sweeten any drinks with sugars or artificial ones due to their amount of sugar already in it.
ReplyDeleteI do not use artificial sweeteners because I know how bad they are for you, and they also make your drink taste like death, so I stay clear of them.
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