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<blockquote data-quote="Beagler" data-source="post: 1436673" data-attributes="member: 326827"><p>There area an awful lot of variables to the answers to those questions!</p><p>Blood sugar</p><p>Pure "artificial" sweeteners do not affect blood sugar directly - but some are a mix of nutritive and non-nutritive sugars (or a mix of a chemical and real sugar to put it simply), so will raise blood sugars. Also, your system has a nasty habit of saying "ooooh, it's sweet, quick, pump out the insulin" which may affect things quite strongly! And finally, learning to depend on artificials just encourages you to like sugar!</p><p>Weight</p><p>Used in moderation, to replace the nutritive sugars with something with less calories, they can help reduce total calorie intake and therefore help lose weight. They can also be used to make some "healthy" foods more palatable. </p><p>Best</p><p>the one which you like, can afford, and is available. Personally, I loathe the taste/aftertaste of most of them, but have recently come across an erithritol / stevia mix which I find really good in flavour and easy to use.</p><p>Good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Beagler, post: 1436673, member: 326827"] There area an awful lot of variables to the answers to those questions! Blood sugar Pure "artificial" sweeteners do not affect blood sugar directly - but some are a mix of nutritive and non-nutritive sugars (or a mix of a chemical and real sugar to put it simply), so will raise blood sugars. Also, your system has a nasty habit of saying "ooooh, it's sweet, quick, pump out the insulin" which may affect things quite strongly! And finally, learning to depend on artificials just encourages you to like sugar! Weight Used in moderation, to replace the nutritive sugars with something with less calories, they can help reduce total calorie intake and therefore help lose weight. They can also be used to make some "healthy" foods more palatable. Best the one which you like, can afford, and is available. Personally, I loathe the taste/aftertaste of most of them, but have recently come across an erithritol / stevia mix which I find really good in flavour and easy to use. Good luck. [/QUOTE]
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