Adult Obesity Facts

Re:Adult Obesity Facts by ErikVandeWater on Friday August 27, 2021 @12:37PM (#28329879)

Sugar and its synthetic brothers are addictive. Sugar addiction should be classified as an addiction and given the same sort of attention and funding that alcohol and drug addictions receive.

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Re:Adult Obesity Facts by CanceledAccount on Friday August 27, 2021 @12:59PM (#28330226)

Being against artificial sweeteners is like being against vaping. Even if they cause some harm, the alternative is a massive danger, so we should still encourage people to switch.

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Re:Adult Obesity Facts by ErikVandeWater on Friday August 27, 2021 @01:52PM (#28330926)

Artificial sweeteners haven't had the effect of making people thinner in the real world because it affects your sense of taste and the microbiome in your digestive system.

> Dr. Robert Lustig, an obesity expert and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, said that artificial sweeteners confuse the body: Their sweet flavors send a signal to the brain and the digestive system to brace for a flood of sugar. But when those calories never arrive, it can send hormones like insulin out of whack, over time leading to metabolic dysfunction, he said. > “The short answer is that artificial sweeteners are probably better than sugar, but not by much,” Dr. Lustig said.

NYT: https://archive.ph/MoRg7#selection-887.0-891.114

The difference between smoking and vaping is far more vast than the difference between sugar and artificial sugar

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Re:Adult Obesity Facts by lotsofpulp on Friday August 27, 2021 @12:42PM (#28329961)

What harm is there from artificial sweeteners? Or rather, how much consumption of artificial sweeteners is harmful?

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Re:Adult Obesity Facts by mey on Friday August 27, 2021 @12:54PM (#28330157)

They may mess with your sense of taste, making you crave even sweeter foods.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/artificial-sweeteners-su...

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Re:Adult Obesity Facts by lotsofpulp on Friday August 27, 2021 @01:04PM (#28330296)

I feel like I have seen a lot of BS peddled about artificial sweeteners over the years, but it seems like they would certainly be a better alternative to the sugar people have been eating.

Despite their widespread consumption, I have yet to see any reports of people being directly affected by them, at least in the amounts currently consumed.

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Re:Adult Obesity Facts by asciimov on Friday August 27, 2021 @01:48PM (#28330857)

One issue with artificial sweeteners is that they can make a person feel hungry an hour or two after consumption. Thus causing a person to consume more calories than they normally would.

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