I truly deep in my heart know that pepsi max was a contributor to Wayne’s pancreatic cancer.
Wayne drank all day everyday without hardly any water, this or low calorie cordial.
This is a foreign object in our body and to process it takes a lot of hard work by the organs and when anything is overworked – it breaks down!!
This along with stress and not a great sleep regime all makes sense to me now – but I really want the artificial sweeteners exposed to what it can do to your health.
This information below was from “The Mind-Gut Connection” – based on studies done and proven:
The biggest change in our diet has occurred due to food additives and the way the food industry has responded to our insatiable appetite for sugars.
On the one side, vast amounts of sugar have been added to a wide range of foods in the form of high-fructose corn syrup, even to food items (like breads and crackers) that we don’t seek out to satisfy our sweet tooth.
Artificial sweeteners have been added to just about anything we seek out to reconcile our cravings for sweet taste with our concern about calories. Introduced more than a century ago, artifical sweeteners were developed to let us enjoy sweet foods without the weight gain and hazardous spikes in blood sugar caused by high sugar intake.
If artificial sweeteners came with motos, it would be “you can have your cake and eat it too.”
Today these chemicals are added in massive amounts to commonly consumed foods such as diet softdrink, cereals, and sugar free desserts. And they remain popular, even among the scientifically savvy.
Diet coke and diet pepsi remain the most popular beverage choices with lunch (not to mention the processed lunch meats) and greasy potato chips.
The evidence for dangers and increased risk of metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes.
Studies done on mice that consumed artificial sweeteners showed their gut microbiota played a major role and showed it can induce glucose intolerance and signs of metabolic syndrome.
Artificial sweeteners have just a huge effect on the gut as does the high trans fat diets does.
This means that far from helping you lose weight , a diet softdrink with that fatty hamburger could exacerbate the harm all the fat in that plastic cheese is doing to your metabolism.
The researchers also showed that sweeteners changes metabolic pathways in gut microbes so they produce more short chain fatty acids, which can be adsorbed by the colon, providing additional calories. This means that when you consume artificial sweeteners, your body enlists your gut microbiota to harvest more calories in the colon from microbial metabolic products to compensate for the missing sugar available in the small intestine. It suggests that trying to cut calories with artificial sweeteners won’t work because your gut, with the help of its microbes, will just extract proportionally more calories from the food you eat.
Another study showed individuals who consumed artificial sweeteners were heavier, had higher fasting blood sugar levels, and had altered gut microbiota as well. And their gut microbiota were clearly responsible.
There is strong evidence that artificial sweeteners not only fail to help you lose weight in the short term. They can also be a major cause of inflammatory changes in your gut-brain axis, which can cause damage to your body and the brain. It also means that you’d be smart to scan labels for artificial sweeteners, and avoid them whenever possible.
Please make good choices and seek help from a coach if you need help on working through an addiction. Contact Me
To your health
Kerrie Fatone
Professional Health and Fitness coach
