Sweeteners: The trap of "sugar-free"
Excessive sugar consumption, even addiction to sugar, is a problem that affects a large part of the population. Recently, Agristat announced that between 1850 and 2014, the average sugar consumption per inhabitant has gone from 3 to 39kg... So, should we limit it on a daily basis? Probably, but we still need to be able to decipher product labels...
Often Misleading Labels
These are often deceptive, and the vast world of the food industry takes advantage of the consumer's gullibility, who is not necessarily a nutrition expert, to feed them foods stamped as "sugar-free", but in fact are even more dangerous than those that are loaded with it..
Recently a young man was despairing of having regained weight and no longer being able to get rid of his love handles... In the conversation he explained to me that he consumed a sugar-free drink all day every day. The brand's website boasts of being a drink without preservatives or sugar, but on closer inspection, we find maltodextrin and sucralose in its composition.
No difference to the brain
In fact, the brain does not distinguish between real or fake sugar (sweetener) like sucralose, which has a sweetening power up to 600 times greater than sugar.
Despite this subterfuge, insulin will still be released continuously. This hormone will act in the part of the brain called the hypothalamus. It will then inhibit the transmission of nerve impulses in such a way that energy expenditure will be greatly reduced with as a consequence a greatly decreased lipolysis (breakdown of fats), which will automatically promote overweight, obesity, and also diabetes.
Note that the brain area surrounding the hypothalamus is among the regions of the head that are not fully protected by the blood-brain barrier. Ideal for sweeteners to be able to infiltrate insidiously…
If sugar can be addictive, sweeteners are certainly a synthetic drug.
In children, in addition to easily gaining weight, the growth defects of the skeleton and reproductive disorders are also manifestations linked to the consumption of sweeteners, not to mention the significant decrease in saturation.
By playing on words, these companies are playing above all on their customers' ailments and it's simply outrageous!
