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What you should know about artificial sweeteners and diabetes According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)In the US alone the consumption of sweeteners has risen from 113 pounds per person per year in 1966 to around 142 pounds per person per year in 2004 . In comparison with an average of 8.3 pounds of broccoli and 25 pounds of dark lettuces for 2003, according to U.S. News and World Report. Americans now consume an average of 61 pounds a year of high fructose corn syrup  To date, five artificial sweeteners are approved by the Food and Drug Administration: aspartame, saccharin, acesulfame-K, neotame, and sucralose. The agency regulates artificial sweeteners as food additives, which must be approved as safe before they can be marketed. Saccharin Saccharin has no calories and is 200 to 700 times sweeter than sugar . Brand names include Sweet'N Low, Sweet Twin, and Necta Sweet. Saccharin is used in tabletop sweeteners, baked goods, soft drinks, jams, and chewing gum. Discovered in 1879,Saccharin had been generally recognized as safe (GRAS) until 1972, when it was removed from the GRAS list by the FDA. By definition in the law, a GRAS substance has a long history of safe use in foods, or is determined to be safe based on proven science. But if new evidence suggests that a GRAS substance may no longer be safe, the FDA can prohibit its use or require further safety studies. Aspartame (Nutrasweet,Equal) Acesulfame Potassium (Sweet one) Artificial sweeteners in pregnant women with diabetes Artificial sweeteners are a concern for women with diabetes. This is because that the effects of saccharin on the fetus are unknown. It is advisable for pregnant women to avoid products containing Saccharin. A word of caution about artificial sweeteners and diabetes Our excessive sugar intake has been linked to obesity, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, unruly behavior and cavities. In an attempt to trim down sugar intake, Americans have turned to sugar alternatives like artificial sweeteners and sugar alcohols. The increased presence of these sugar substitutes in our diet has spurred concerns about their safety and nutritional value. Can sugar substitutes allow us to have our cake and eat it, too, or are they just another marketing gimmick created to lighten our wallets at the expense of our health? Aspartame is harmful to diabetic as well as non diabetic individuals. In fact aspartame can aggravate diabetes and its complications, especially eye problems and neuropathy, or it can simulate the complications of diabetes. In other words, aspartame disease can simulate diabetic retinopathy or peripheral neuropathy. It has been found that when diabetic individuals discontinue these products, they usually get better. In terms of aggravating diabetes, consuming aspartame either can bring out latent diabetes clinically or can lead to insulin resistance, which would require patients to take oral drugs to increase the amount of insulin required. The bottom line is that when people stop ingesting these products, the symptoms usually improve. Does aspartame damage the pancreas? We can check the blood sugar (glucose) in many different ways-either randomly or during the course of glucose tolerance testing. The blood glucose level of a diabetic individual may decrease, with a tendency toward hypoglycemia, or it may increase, as a tendency toward diabetes. Certainly, this occurs in a cyclic manner because we change metabolically as the day goes along. An increase in blood sugar may not show up in the morning but they do so later in the day. I believe that aspartame products should be taken off the market because such an artificial sweeteners and diabetes are becoming an imminent public health hazard. . |
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