tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44472491235196583472024-03-16T08:08:59.659+01:00SuppVersity - Nutrition and Exercise Science for EveryoneWhere BRO- and PRO-Science Unite in the Spirit of True WisdomAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comBlogger2419999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-33390871840893701802018-09-21T04:57:00.001+02:002018-09-21T15:53:17.713+02:00Sucralose: Study Seems to Confirm Pro-Diabetic Effects (-18% Reduced Insulin Sensitivity in 2 Weeks) of Realistic Amounts of Sucralose in Humans - What's the Verdict?
What's the verdict on sucralose?
You will have read it in the SuppVersity news on Facebook (Sunday, September 16, 2018): Scientists from the Unidad de Investigación en Enfermedades Metabólicas, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán in Mexico City are the first to present somewhat convincing evidence that the insulin sensitivity of healthy Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-15327466358408455092016-01-29T11:57:00.000+01:002016-01-31T13:26:55.365+01:00If You Want to Lose Weight and Stave it Off, You'd Better Not Drink Water Instead of Artificially Sweetened Beverages
Meanwhile, even many of those who are against the use of sweeteners admit that drinking diet coke is less of an obstacle to weight loss than regular coke. That it could, as the study at hand clearly indicates, even promote weight loss compared to water is controversial, though.
It is one of the die-hard rumors in the fitness industry: Artificial sweeteners will stall your weight / fat loss andAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-14952408594775475152015-11-18T16:59:00.000+01:002015-11-18T17:17:50.604+01:00Artificial Sweetener Saccharin Increases Weight Gain in Rodent Study Without Increasing Food Intake | Plus: Meta-Analysis of Human Studies Says: "No Reason to Worry!"
Should you freak out about a small increase in body weight in a small-scale rodent study that is attributed to the consumption of saccharin in yogurt?
While epidemiological studies show that the consumption of products containing non-nutritive sweeteners (NNS) is associated with increased adiposity (Colditz. 1990; Fowler. 2008), type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), metabolic syndrome and Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-32787947792160305732015-07-05T11:58:00.000+02:002015-07-05T12:12:54.613+02:00Saccharin Affects Weight, Blood Lipids, Glucose & Liver Markers at Doses Equiv. to 3 Packs of Common Sweetener
Implications for diet coke? None!
While I have deliberately ignored all previous studies discussing potential detrimental effects of saccharin on human health based on super-dose animal models, the one at hand is worth mentioning, because the dosage used is way below the RDA of 0.44mg/kg.
But let's tackle one thing after another. In contrast to the myths about aspartame which are still Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-84288465415890451312015-04-10T12:25:00.000+02:002015-04-10T12:33:31.563+02:00Sweetener Update: Chronic Aspartame & Acesulfam-K Use Doesn't Mess W/ Your Microbiome | No Link Between Bad Lifestyle & Sweetener Use | No Good Advice from Dietitians
There's no scientific evidence that any of the various forms of "natural" sugar replacements like brown sugar & co would be better than artificial sweeteners.
Since artificial sweeteners their (non-existent) impact on insulin and, more recently, their effects of the gut microbiome are recurring topics in the Facebook messages I receive, I thought it may be nice to briefly summarize Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-90007568374174966542014-12-22T13:10:00.001+01:002014-12-22T14:57:23.597+01:00Artificial Sweeteners & Liver Cancer - Is There a Link? 6% Increased Risk of Hepatocellular Carcinoma per 330ml of Artificially Sweetened Soft Drink in Human Study
Are we "pouring liver cancer", when we consume soft drinks regularly? Recent data from the EPIC study appears to suggest just that - specifically if the soft drinks are artificially sweetened.
I certainly don't belong to the anti-sweetener faction on the Internet, but the results scientists from the International Agency
for Research on Cancer, the University Paris Sud, the Institut Gustave Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-83619263036592367712014-09-07T13:15:00.000+02:002014-09-07T13:42:59.492+02:00Sweeteners Increase the Sweetness Threshold Required to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth - Human Study Makes it Official! Overeating Still Not Necessarily an Issue For Most of Us
Evil or harmless? If you exert some self- control, the effects non-nutritive natural and artificial sweeteners are about to have on the amount of sweetness it takes to satisfy you is not enough to make you fat - I mean, you are no fattening pig, but an intelligent human being with a free will and a decent degree of self-control.
Some of you may have seen my post an a recent sweetener review inAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-52870015831835757312014-08-18T15:19:00.002+02:002016-06-18T02:48:39.357+02:00Stevia - Natural Sweetener With Anti-Diabetes + Anti-Obesity Effects? Research Update: GLP-1, Insulin, Glucose Transport and Uptake, Inflammation, Bitterness & Safety
Stevia is certainly one of the best choices to use as a sweetening agent. It is yet important to point out that this has nothing to do with the fact that it is "natural" - as "natural" as the white stevioside powder ism anyway.
You may remember from the Facebook News that Ripken et al. reported in a recent paper in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (2014) that Stevia will Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-71216620389419661992013-12-17T17:44:00.001+01:002013-12-18T06:58:50.049+01:00Sucralose, Carcinogen or Sweet Relief? Part III: DNA Breaks + Drug & Hormone Interactions | Sucralose, White Death?
Fearmongering fake, or true biohazard. This is the life-or-death- question this last installment of the sucralose trilogy will have to answer.
It's time for the third and last installment of the SuppVersity sucralose review trilogy. Looking back at the list of issues in the first installment of this series, it appears as if the one thing that was still left to discuss are the mutagenic, Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-22761754803262108032013-12-15T14:45:00.002+01:002013-12-19T12:31:52.919+01:00Sucralose, Hazardous or Innocent? Part II: Appetite, Gut Health & Food Reward | Sucralose, Gluttony & Adiposity?
Plain mineral water is still the best thing to quench your thirst.
Today we are going to continue our thorough, educated reading of the recently published overview over the biological issues with sucrolase, a "popular" artificial sweetener most of you will probably know by its brand name Splenda. The focus of part I of this series was on the potential pro-diabetic effects of this agent that Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-63834265422745489662013-12-14T16:37:00.001+01:002014-07-17T08:27:42.512+02:00Sucralose, Hazardous or Innocent? A Review of the Review - Part I: Glucose, Insulin & GLP1 | Sucralose & Diabetes?
Sweet, low and unhealthy? Is sucralose as bad as a recent review would suggest?
I guess I could say "I've written more than enough about artificial sweeteners!" and simply ignore the sensational press release about the "bioactivity" of this increasingly common artificial sweetener you've read on the SuppVersity Facebook News, yesterday (check it out). In view of the fact that most of my Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-11085042594113338992013-10-21T16:28:00.000+02:002013-10-22T08:36:50.630+02:00Sweet, But Not Innocent!? The Fattening Effects of the Non - Nutritive Sweeteners Erythritol & Aspartame Are On Par With Equally Sweet Sugar Water
I just hope that today's SuppVersity article is not going to cause scenes like this, because when it all said and done it may be less likely, but not impossible that it is (for whatever vexed reason) still aspartame that caused the negative effects observed in the study at hand.
It is one of the recurring motifs here at the SuppVersisty and at the same time one of the most popular issues of Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-10903279437938841722013-09-26T17:03:00.000+02:002013-09-26T17:05:36.770+02:00No-Carb Foods, Artificial Sweeteners & The Cravings: In The End, It's The Glucose, Not The Taste Our Brains Crave
Despite the fact that candy is per definition (literally) made of sugar, you can buy "no carb candy" at every corner. The results of this study tell you why these aren't worth the money.
I have written extensively about artificial sweeteners in the past and would thus hope that it's not necessary to recount all the information about how they interact with insulin, potential toxicity risks, Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-52298680790343415312013-07-14T15:04:00.002+02:002013-07-14T15:04:27.386+02:00Sucralose is for Diabetics Not, Scientists say. But How Significant is the Cholesterol Increase They Observed?
This way of consuming Splenda is quite certainly going to increase your cholesterol levels ;-)
I guess, all of you will still remember the show Carl and I did on the "Pro-Insulinogenic Effects of Artificial Sweeteners" (read more), right? The one where I tried to point out that even if there was a meager change in the insulin response, this would only be a problem if there was any truth to&Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-23198989881387104602013-07-07T16:58:00.001+02:002013-07-07T17:05:38.923+02:00Aspartame, a Cancer Protective Brain Toxin? Is There a Hormetic Threshold for the Consumption of the Dreaded Artificial Sweetener? Plus: What Do We Know, Anyway?
The beauty ideals have changed over the years. Coke, however, is still there. But are we going to say the same about the aspartame in diet coke 50 years from today? I don't think so - regardless of what the science says...
Artificial sweeteners are one of the "hot topics" here at the SuppVersity and I am already looking forward to the upheaval today's post on aspartame is probably going to Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-85069998134630263892013-05-31T16:03:00.001+02:002013-09-26T16:42:29.669+02:00Science Round-Up Seconds: The Pro-Insulinogenic Effect of Artificial Sweeteners + Mechanisms & Consequences
Would having your coffee with splenda instead of sugar make this cookie even more hazardous for your glucose metabolism and what about your waistline?
If you've listened to yesterday's installment of the science Round-Up your are probably already in the know of the most important facts about the "pro-insulinogenic" effects of sucralose and how it is (a) neither sure what exactly is causing Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-66612875328616290502012-12-17T17:31:00.001+01:002013-01-03T06:53:56.060+01:00Pistachio Phenols 90% Bioavailable. Phe, Leu, Glu & Trp - Four Satiating Aminos. Artificial Sweeteners Act as Anti- Convulsants. Dendrobium for Glucose, Lipids & KidneysSince I am a little pressed in time, I won't beat around the bush, but rather get to the meat of the matter of this Nutrition Quickie, right away... well, actually today's nutrition quickie has no item on meats, but is has one Dendrobium, which is actually rather a supplement - be that as it may, here you go:
Since you (hopefully ;-) haven't swallowed a bomb colorimeter, it's actually no Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-40737420743933365682012-09-11T16:49:00.000+02:002015-09-01T04:14:19.358+02:00Stevia - More Than Super Sweet: More Scientific Evidence, More Potential Implications for Weight Loss & -Maintenance, Anti-Diabetic & -Autoimmune and Even Pro-Anabolic Effects
Image 1: Stevia is sweeter than sugar, healthier than sugar and could even help reverse some of the damage sugar may already have done to your pancreas.
I know that a few of you were almost furious, when I had the audacity to mention the case-report on the pro-cortisol effects of stevia in the On Short Notice post on Saturday, August 18, 2012; and though I did emphasize that this was most Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-82164137956092891162012-03-23T17:42:00.000+01:002012-03-23T18:36:22.367+01:00Fructose Epimer D-Psicose Could Be First Sweetener to Actively Promote Weight Loss: Reduced Weight Gain and Direct Inhibitory Effect on Adipocyte Maturation in Rodent + Reduced Postprandial Glucose & Insulin in Human Trial
Image 1: No, just a few grams of d-psicose won't turn these into a "health food", but it could help ameliorate the "damage"
Good news for everyone with a sweet tooth! Right after stevia has finally made it to the European market, the next 1/2 natural sweetener is at the ready. It's called d-psicose and it is a cousin of fructose that is yet only 70% as sweet as sucrose (fructose is +20% Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-4649357713525302332012-01-28T18:35:00.000+01:002012-01-29T08:31:14.250+01:00The Unsatiating Truth About Aspartame, Acesulfam K, Sucralose & Co: They Don't Induce Glucose or Insulin Spikes, But Do They Make You Hungry?
Image 1: If you plan to eat the stuff on the plate behind the coffee cup, I guess it does not really matter if you use sugar, fructose, Aspartame, Acesulfam K, Sucralose or everybody's new darling, stevia to sweeten the coffee ;-)
If there was a yearly top 10 list of the furiously and most passionately debated topics, in the health & fitness community, the issue of "artificial Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-23069012232244129172012-01-09T17:31:00.003+01:002012-01-09T19:27:47.151+01:00Coke vs. Diet Coke vs. Milk - The "Unhealthy Beverage Shoot-Out": Milk Reduces, Coke Increases Visceral Fat. Dreaded Diet Coke on Par With Plain Water
Image 1: I guess plastic dolls don't care about "fat" anyway.. so why would they drink diet coke, then?
I assume that at least some of you have read the Ask Dr. Andro post from August, 21, 2010, "Are Colostrum and Milk Products Healthy Muscle Builders, a Waste of Money or Toxic Waste?" As the title already suggests, the focus of this article was on milk / milk products as muscle builders and Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-8231991808887271852011-07-03T08:05:00.003+02:002011-07-03T08:14:46.471+02:00Xylitol, a Low-Calorie Sweetener With Unknown Fat-Burning Side-Effects!? Replacing Cornstarch With the Five-Carbon Sugar, Xylitol, Ramps Up Fat Burning Enzymes in Rodent Model of Diet Induced Obesity.
Image 1: Xylitol christals under the micro-
scope (photo taken by Anders
Østergaard Madsen, Denmark 2001)
From a health perspective, the five-carbon sugar alcohol Xylitol has hitherto principally been known for its beneficial effects on dental health. With a caloric value of 3kcal/g the naturally occurring ingredient of a wide variety of plants, citrus fruits (plums, Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-88156047479724278722011-05-18T02:21:00.030+02:002011-05-18T02:21:00.212+02:00Stevia, the Anti-Diabetic Sweetener: Extract from the Leaves of Stevia rebaudiana Exhibit Anti-Diabetic Effects in Animal Model
Image 1: Stevia rebaudiana foliage
(photo by Ethel Aardvark)
The health-conscious consumer, you, as a SuppVersity reader, are, you will probably have heard of the natural sweetener stevia, which -despite its various advantages over its artificial counterparts- still has not made it to the mass market. While higher costs, certainly are the main culprit here, another factor could be the Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-86467411157908931772011-03-12T02:45:00.003+01:002011-03-12T07:45:10.987+01:00Diet Coke & Liver Damage? Long Term Very High Dose Aspartame Consumption Impairs Antioxidant Defense of Rat Livers.The ever-growing group of health conscious costumers is rightly very skeptical of artificial sweeteners in general and Aspartame in particular. A recent study (Abhilash. 2011) done by scientists from the Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam, Kerala, India, seems to rectify this attitude.
The scientists fed rats drinking water that contained either no, i.e. 0mg, 500mg or 1.000mg aspartame per kgAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.com