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Are sugar drinks better for you than diet drinks?
Question : Are sugar drinks better for you than diet drinks?
Given insulin, diabetes, obesity etc….what is preferable for the body if you had to chose one? Drinks sweetened with sucralose, aspartame, etc, or to just have soda’s or fresh orange juice because they’re natural is the decision I’m trying to make. For example a glass of natural orange juice might have 30g of sugar (8 teaspons – more than a soda of the same serving). On the other hand it is natural. I’ve heard that artificial sweeteners raise insulin levels (anyone have scientific studies?)….so if artificial sweeteners spike insulin, what’s the whole point? And does it mean diabetics shouldn’t drink diet drinks? Problem in this area is there’s lots of information saying artificial sweeteners are safe…lots of info saying they’re toxic and will kill you. However, sugar at the levels consumed in the modern diet isn’t good for you either. But is the sugar preferable anyway?
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Best answer:
Answer by OneManWolfPack
I have a solution for this problem, don’t drink the stuff. Drinking nothing but water has never hurt anybody.
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#2 written by kat 1 year ago
If I had to choose one, it’d be diet..but that’s just because I’m addicted to Diet Coke.
It’s really unhealthy, either way. I heard sugar’s better for you than aspartame, because of all the chemicals. But I don’t think one glass a day is going to kill you. Just make sure you drink a lot of water and you’ll be healthy
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#3 written by Betty B 1 year ago
Real sugar is better (as long as you brush and floss because it’s bad for the teeth).
You will gain weight with fake sugar.
For some reason, “sugar free” food in America will still taste sweet because the manufacturers are using fake sugar (in other countries, it’s just not sweet, like sour taste, no fake sugar there, which you get used to it).
If you eat something sweet, your taste buds will send the message to your brain. Then your brain will think that you’re getting more sugar so you will get an insulin response and the actual sugar that you have in your blood will be sent to your fat cells and muscles (that’s one way to get fat), since you’re supposed to get more sugar…BUT THEN…oops, you did not really get sugar!!! So now, your body is in a state of emergency with low blood sugar levels. Now, all your body wants is for you to replenish your sugar level in your blood which are very important and to make you do that, your body (your brain) makes you very hungry because it wants you to eat to get more sugar (which is why people eating diet food are more likely to binge).
So…sweet food with real sugar would just give you more energy, while sweet food with fake sugar will just make you weak (low blood sugar level) and hungrier (need to replenish the blood sugar), so you’ll eat more and gain weight.
They are a lot of experiments with rats and the ones given fake sugar ate more and got fatter.It is a proven fact, among humans, that fake sugar, like in diet sodas, leads to obesity.
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Sugar is probably the biggest killer out there. There is a HUGE list of health problems associated from repeated insulin spikes. Since everything went “fat free” 25 years ago people have been getting fatter and more unhealthy. Processed foods made with white flour and all the fat and fiber removed are just as bad as sugar because they cause the same insulin spikes. When they took the fat out they just added more sugar to make up for the taste loss from the fat. Aspartame might not be good for you, but sucralose is considered safe and even if it was a little detrimental to your health, it is no where near as bad as sugar is. The bottom line is all you have to do is switch from one to the other to know which one is better for you. I felt like crap constantly when I was overdosing on sugar and now that I switched to sucralose I feel great all the time. It’s a no brainer which one is harder on your body.
Edit: Not to mention that I got fat eating sugar and I’m ripped now that I don’t eat sugar or processed foods that spike insulin. You won’t see many bodybuilders eating much sugar, but you will see them putting sucralose on their oatmeal. Believe me, bodybuilders know what will make the fat and what won’t. If atificial sweeteners caused insulin spikes, it would cause fat gain, but it obviously doesn’t. Anyone (or study) that says it does cause fat gain is neglecting to consider all the crap food they are eating as the cause.