Bitter Sweet Relationship with Sweeteners
We all are well aware of the harmful impacts of sweeteners and yet we still can’t get enough of them.
Remember in the folk story how Hansel and Gretel almost got eaten by the Witch because they just can’t get enough eating from the house made of cookies, chocolates, candies and clear sugar. Because of the excessive sweets, both became overweight fulfilling the ultimate fattening goal of the witch before she had them cooked up.
Sugar and society’s LOVE-HATE-RELATIONSHIP has been around since way back when. Ever wonder why regardless of the awareness that too much sweet intake creates negative impact, still we continue to love and crave for these little devils? Basically because that’s what sugar and those artificial sweeteners are functioned to do, disrupting your satisfaction level for sweets, which causes overeating, spike the fat storing hormone insulin and leads to age-accelerating molecules. Yes! This is the truth behind the “unputdownable” chocolate bars and the endless craving for more.
The most commonly used artificial sweeteners that have long been under extreme scrutiny are saccharine, aspartame and sucralose.
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