Artificial Sweeteners

Artificial sweeteners are often used by diabetics who monitor their sugars and when one is trying to cut calories from their diet. There is evidence showing that artificial sweeteners may not trigger the same brain reaction for satiety and could potentially increase appetite for sweets and other carbohydrates. Artificial sweeteners do not exist in nature and so the body is unable to process them, resulting in no calorie intake – we still do not know what, if any, the long term effects are from some of these sweeteners. Common names for artificial sweeteners are: saccharin, aspartame, acesulfame-k, sucralose, neotame.