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Fake sugar linked to heart attack and stroke

antithesis

Posted 3:24 pm, 06/08/2024

It's definitely not good! But at least when it spikes your insulin, there's something there for the insulin to process. Fake sugar causes the same spike, but with nothing to process it just turns into fat around your organs.

HFCS is especially known to cause fatty liver. It's actually been banned in several countries.

RollOn2

Posted 2:42 pm, 06/08/2024

Isn't high fructose corn sweetener about as bad?

antithesis

Posted 2:26 pm, 06/08/2024

I've said this repeatedly for years... do not use fake sugars as an alternative, they do so much more harm than good! Just make a point to keep an eye on what you eat and drink, and limit your intake of real sugar to less than 40g a day.

Sugar is an addiction, but you can break it if you just avoid it for a month. You'll never be able to completely eliminate it, but if you just eliminate sweet drinks and snacks for a mere 30 days then you can beat it! And you'll never want to go back...

antithesis

Posted 2:23 pm, 06/08/2024

A low-calorie sweetener called xylitol used in many reduced-sugar foods and consumer products such as gum and toothpaste may be linked to nearly twice the risk of heart attacks, stroke and death in people who consume the highest levels of the sweetener, a new study found.

"We gave healthy volunteers a typical drink with xylitol to see how high the levels would get and they went up 1,000-fold," said senior study author Dr. Stanley Hazen, director of the Center for Cardiovascular Diagnostics and Prevention at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute.

"When you eat sugar, your glucose level may go up 10% or 20% but it doesn't go up a 1,000-fold," said Hazen, who also directs the Cleveland Clinic's Center for Microbiome and Human Health.

"Humankind has not experienced levels of xylitol this high except within the last couple of decades when we began ingesting completely contrived and sugar-substituted processed foods," he added.

In 2023, the same researchers found similar results for another low-calorie sweetener called erythritol, which is used as a bulking sugar in stevia, monkfruit and keto reduced-sugar products.

Additional lab and animal research presented in both papers revealed erythritol and xylitol may cause blood platelets to clot more readily. Clots can break off and travel to the heart, triggering a heart attack, or to the brain, triggering a stroke.

In the new study on xylitol, "differences in platelet behavior were seen even after a person consumed a modest quantity of xylitol in a drink typical of a portion consumed in real life," said Dr. Matthew Tomey, a cardiologist at Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital in New York City, who was not involved in the study.


https://www.cnn.com/2024/06...index.html

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