Many people are still amazed to hear that diet drinks and artificial sweeteners are not good for you. People are even more amazed when they hear that it’s the diet drinks that are preventing them from losing weight and causing a multitude of other side effects.
The active sweetener in many diet or zero calories drinks is Aspartame, which is an excitable neurotransmitter. Aspartame is not natural and when too much enters the brain it causes the death of brain cells, and there is evidence to support links with Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s, Depression and more. Aspartame further breaks down in your system to Methanol and finally Formaldehyde both of which have well known side effects including: Headaches, Dizziness, Weakness, Gastrointestinal Problems, and even Cancer.
Aspartame is the active ingredient in NutraSweet, Equal and over 5000 other products. The side effects of Aspartame are so strong that Pilots are frequently warned of the dangers of seizures and vertigo. The topic is so important to pilots that articles are regularly published in the Air Forces magazines. Rats have died from cancer caused by feeding them Aspartame and this chemical has been used as an effective ant poison too!
But not only is Aspartame a deadly chemical that causes a whole myriad of side effects and diseases but it’s ineffective at helping you lose fat too!
When you consume an artificial chemical it tricks your system into thinking its getting something sweet. When the sweet stuff doesn’t arrive it sends out a strong signal to go out and find some. In other words you get stronger cravings for sugar from consuming the artificial sweetener, it’s like a drug. In an experiment 94% of animals chose the artificial sweetener over cocaine even though they were already addicted to cocaine.
As your taste receptors change sweet things don’t taste as sweet as they used to so you crave even sweeter foods and due to the excess of insulin you have created in your body this turns all foods you do eat into fat.
Case studies are now revealing that those who do consume diet based drinks have a higher BMI than those that do not. Research also shows that just drinking one can of a diet drink per day increased their risk of Metabolic Syndrome by 34%. Metabolic syndrome leads to problems like Diabetes, Heart Disease, and Cancer.
The fact is there is overwhelming evidence to support the dangers of artificial sweeteners and the adverse effects they have on fat loss. My advice is to go natural, drink water. You can add lemon or orange for flavour if you wish. Buy a juicer and juice fresh fruit and vegetables, but ensure you drink them straight away. Don’t buy juices that are in bottles, only ones that are juiced in front of you. Forget sports drinks, they are loaded with artificial sweeteners and won’t do your waistline any good.
Think natural and live natural, it’s the only way to beat fat in 2010.
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