Artificial Sweeteners - What's the deal?

[Gender: Xenomorph]

So I noticed this trend a while ago. It was novel at first, but every soda company has a "no sugar" variant.

What's the deal? Are they more addictive? Easier to produce?

I suspect they more addictive than sugar, and make your body crave more soda. They're probably more toxic too!

 

[Otterly]

They taste foul. People get very angry if you suggest artificial sweeteners are bad for you.
Personally I don’t think aspartame is good for you but the lab results are contradictory.
Probably better to avoid soda unless very occasionally and then enjoy the fully sweet version tbh.

 

[Beautiful Border]

I don't see how they can be addictive when they give you the shits. I once tried to get high overdosing on cough medicine and ended up shitting my guts out because of the maltitol and sorbitol additives in it, the same shit they put in sugar free gummy bears. Not a fun experience especially when you're tripping. Now I'm always careful to not buy "sugar-free" candies that use artificial sweeteners, lesson learned

 

[vomitusdeux]

YOU WILL DRINK ZE BUGS

 

[Penis Drager 2.0]

What's the deal? Are they more addictive? Easier to produce?

Lower calories.
People trying to cut calories are an exploitable market so people are going to exploit it. Same with "all natural," "organic," "non GMO," etc. No need to make a conspiracy about it.

The product exists because people are willing to pay for it.

 

[Male Idiot]

It is supposed to be the green fitness alternative for hipsters and health nuts.

Some of them maybe carcinogenic. You are better off just drinking something else.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

If something is marketed as "diet" or "low calorie" people will allow themselves to overindulge more and end up consuming even more calories in the end.

 

[Judas Connor Moon]

*cracks open a classic coke* sipppppppp, yeahhh...

 

[shameful existence]

They're not more addictive, and the health risks compared to regular sugar drinks depend on who you ask.

What I think is a bigger issue is companies adding sugar alcohols to random products, to reduce calories.
I'm personally a fan of these and use erythritol and xylitol regularly, but I've only recently learned that some people are highly sensitive to them, and they can make them suffer. Much harder to avoid than aspartame in drinks, and it's a relatively new thing.

 

[Mr Bones Wild Ride]

I swear a few years ago there was some preliminary research posted on here that discussed how certain sugar free sweeteners cause insulin spikes anyway, which over time leads to insulin resistance.
Also some preliminary research that it fucks with your gut flora and may increase ghrelin levels causing people to overeat (thus defeating the purpose of "low calorie soft drink")

Fucked if I can find any of those papers now though.

At any rate, your best bet is to drink water.
Water is awesome.
#waterniggas

 

[Metatron]

I noticed that stevia made my heart hurt. (No vaxxed). Once I stopped using it, I felt all bueno again.

I don't have studies to back it up, but seeing how all these companies push these artificial sweeteners, they're probably:

- a way to claim the product is healthier due to less sugar.
- probably cost effective for these companies.
- probably more dangerous to the consumer (due to the artificial nature of it)

I would recommend to avoid all products with artificial sweeteners.

 

[WTBOnlineFather]

I drink soda once in a blue moon and when I do I opt for sugar free to save some calories and because I can't taste any fucking difference. I've had people sperg out at me about how this is completely impossible and sugar free is disgusting and undrinkable and it's going to kill me, which makes me wonder how some people can become this autistic about fizzy drinks and why they love the sugary variants so much.

After witnessing this kind of brain damage enough times I've reached the conclusion I don't think artificial sweeteners are any more harmful than consuming high amounts of high fructose processed sugars. Of course allergic people should avoid em.

 

[The Cunting Death]

I remember as a kid aspartame gave me constant headaches so I'm not a fan of it.

 

[oldTireWater]

I drink the pink stuff in coffee. Yeah, it tasted bad at first but I got used to it and now sugar tastes cloying.

I don't need to worry about possible carcinogenic effects because I'm a smoker and everything else is in the noise.

 

[Lifeguard Hermit]

Sucralose, a popular artificial sweetener used in many food products, has been linked to genetic damage and potential health risks. The sweetener, commonly known as Splenda, has been found to cause DNA damage, inflammation, and oxidative stress, which can lead to various health issues, including cancer.

I Love that this shit is still on the market: they've known about this over a year and have done nothing. Makes you wonder if they didn't quite expect the cat to get out of the bag so quick with it.

Edit: when correcting a spelling error in this post I remembered that I had memory hole'd Splenda causing cancer in Lab rats well over 20 years ago and they kept it on the market.

 

[Jarl Varg]

I rarely drink sodas anymore, and will drink a PCS, when I really want one. Any artificial sweetener is bad in large doses, and just tastes bad. I laugh at people in the grocery store, when they have a cart loaded with cases of diet soda. High fructose corn syrup isn't much better than artificial, and it's in pretty much everything. Really sad when a soda is worse for you than a beer.

 

[Devout Muslim]

People are realising that drinking 100 g of sugar a day (in addition to normal dietary intake) is not conducive to health and wellbeing. Soda companies don’t want people switching to other beverages so they’re offering no sugar alternatives.

I try to avoid them as they can have negative health impacts or spike your blood sugar and I’m not across the research for each various chemical. It’s better to just stick to less sweet drinks, such as unsweetened iced coffee or water.

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

The problematic part is that it is no longer contained to "low calorie" or "diet" drinks. Pick up a random sweetened product that isn't advertising it is made with "pure cane sugar" and you might be surprised that it has an artificial sweetener in it that they don't bother to tell you about unless you read the ingredient list. I was quite disgusted to find out that the Lipton regular sweetened tea you get in the bottle now contains an artificial sweetener in it that they don't bother to disclose other than in the ingredient list. It has been happening the last couple of years at an increasing frequency. Things that used to be sweetened with sugar or HFCS now contain sugar or HFCS as well as some weird blend of artificial sweeteners, but there is no notice anywhere on the product that they changed the formulation. I make a point of reading the ingredients in everything I eat or drink (since I don't trust food and beverage companies to keep trying to sneak more non-food inedible crap into things I buy).

 

[ReeveReeveMessenger]

My uncle only drinks soda if they're "sugar-free" because he wants to become more healthy. He's also fat, balding and like almost 60, so I'm not sure how well that strat is working for him.

Personally I think modern soda already has enough poison in it that the amount of sugar is irrelevant compared to how much Plurocytozanzidyhidroshityourpantsanddieazene the manufacturers decided to pour into it

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

People are realising that drinking 100 g of sugar a day (in addition to normal dietary intake) is not conducive to health and wellbeing. Soda companies don’t want people switching to other beverages so they’re offering no sugar alternatives.

I try to avoid them as they can have negative health impacts or spike your blood sugar and I’m not across the research for each various chemical. It’s better to just stick to less sweet drinks, such as unsweetened iced coffee or water.

I know people that drink 2l of soda a day.
Crazy.