The Dangers of Artificial Sweeteners: Obesity, Diabetes, High Blood Pressure and Heart Disease

Diets are all the rage, and it's big business. Practically each year (for decades now) some new diet shows up claiming to be the best one, because they say so. But does it actually provide a healthy nutritional profile?

Whether you're on an actual diet or not, there are plenty of so-called "diet" foods for you to buy and consume. There are all kinds of diet foods that take out fat but replace it with sugar, which isn't much better, maybe it's even worse. Refined sugar can become an addiction and it's not at all healthy for us.

I think one of the oldest forms of diet manipulations has come in the form of "diet" drinks, like soft drinks or other liquids that have artificial sweeteners replacing refined or processed sugars. If you're worried about your diet, then you better pickup and Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, or diet something else, at least that's what this marketing hype is trying to convince you of. Buy artificial sweeteners because those are better than sugar. Is this really the case? No.

Artificial sweeteners are often excitotoxins and can alter your brain chemistry, overstimulating neuron receptors that can become exhausted. They make your taste buds go wild, making food taste better. But all that brain overstimulation can result in brain cells burning out and dying. This is something I knew before.

I know that some people are taking diet drinks with artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, sucralose or stevia in order to combat being overweight or having diabetes. People are convinced to stay away from sugars, even thinking that natural fruit sugars are bad for them, yet they still want something sweet so they run for the artificial sweeteners. But artificial sweeteners have been linked to increasing the risk of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease.

I knew about this before too, but there is a recent study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal that brings this back into the news, so it's another chance for people to wake up and stop taking these dangerous substances that are "FDA approved". A systematic review of 37 studies that followed 400,000 people for 10 years. Only 7 studies were randomized, with about 1000 people followed for an average of 6 months.

It's clear that artificial sweeteners do not show a consistent effect on weight loss. Furthermore, longer observational studies show a link between artificial sweeteners and a higher risk of weight gain, obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease and other health issues.

Aspartame has been in the news for years about how harmful is. You can go research this on how it was discovered, and how evidently harmful it is an large doses, yet in smaller doses it doesn't have an immediate demonstration of how harmful it is. But go look into it yourself, and raise your awareness of how you are being poisoned by the food around. Aspartame has even changed it's name over the years to avoid being identified (NutraSweet, Equal), even now being marketed as a "natural sweetener" under the name AminoSweet. Lies, lies, lies.

Many years ago, I tried to help someone who had diabetes, yet was drinking diet soft drinks as a way to "mitigate" diabetes, because diet soft drinks and artificial sweeteners are "better" they believed. I tried to explain to them how not to trust the marketing of these food industries, that artificial sweeteners were worse than sugar and made diabetes worse. But they just told me that if it was true that they were being lied to they didn't want to know. They said they were going to keep buying it because that's what they prefer to believe. You can't help people that don't want the help, esepcailly if they don't want to face reality.

This is the insanity of the world we currently live in. People don't care about what's true. They just want to believe in whatever fantasy they want to believe in so they can keep doing whatever they are doing.

Companies can market and advertise things to people. People believe it, and the companies make money by making people unhealthy. If you want to pay someone to give you something that damages your body, then that's all "good" in our society. Education to know what you're actually doing? Nah... just let people stay ignorant and support bad food companies that don't give a shit about people, just the money.

I can tell you that I have never liked diet drinks. They always tasted like shit to me. It's not a good tasting sweetener. I don't drink soft drinks at all anymore, and haven't for years.

Do you drink regular soft drinks?
Do you drink diet drinks?
How do you like the taste of artificial sweeteners?
Did you know about any of these issues with artificial sweeteners?
If you have been drinking diet soft drinks or the like, will you learn more in order to stop "poisoning" yourself?

Thank you for your time and attention. Peace.