On 07/12/2013 07:28 AM, Trawley Trash wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 02:58:13 +0000 (UTC)
> "W. Baker" > wrote:
>
>> Todd > wrote:
>> : Hi All,
>>
>> : Here is a great opinion piece on artificial sweeteners
>> : from a journal called:
>>
>> : Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism
>> : http://www.cell.com/trends/endocrinology-metabolism/
>>
>> :
>> http://download.cell.com/images/edim...sm/tem_888.pdf
>>
>> : A quick summary: artificial sweeteners initially trick the
>> : body into reacting as if something sweet is entering. Then
>> : the body gets wise to the trick and stops. Then when you
>> : do eat something sweet or carbie, the body doesn't react
>> : properly. And the satiation response doesn't kick in,
>> : causing overeating and T2 to kick in.
>>
>> : Basically, the criticism of artificial sweeteners is
>> : that body gets wise to them and doesn't react appropriately
>> : to the real stuff. Not that the body thinks the fake stuff
>> : is real, but that the body starts to think the real stuff
>> : is fake.
>>
>> : -T
>>
>> I didn't read it, for various vision reasons, bu does Stevia do or
>> not do the same thing of tricking the body into thinking it is
>> getting sugar, etc? It most liekly is the sweetmess pf tehtaste that
>> is the problem, not its artificiality . the Stevia is also an
>> artificial sugar as it is someting pretending to be a sugar that is
>> not(no calories, no carbs) so if the non-nutritive(better word for
>> the general catgory) sweetener fools the body into thinking it is
>> gettign sugar, thusr eleasing insuin, etc, then Stevia is just as
>> guilty.
>>
>> Wendy
>
> I think that is probably right. Think about fructose. It is the
> sweetest of the common sugars, but it provides no rush of glucose
> into the blood. Instead it must be processed by the liver where
> it generally ends up as fat. So we get an insulin response from
> fructose, but no matching increase in glucose. Some people develop
> hypos from this, and many more have to be careful about the
> liver fat.

Here is a chart that shows glucose and fructose metabolism
and how they interact. (They interact A LOT!)

http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.co...1/89/figure/F1