1. Artificial sweeteners are stable component of many fit households. Their role is to replace sugar, but without huge amount of calories. It might seem that they are perfect solution for those who love sweet foods, but don't want to gain weight or need to lose weight. Unfortunately, it is not entirely so.
When you have something sweet, your body associates it with intake of energy, calories. Artificial sweeteners therefore cause confusion in it – perceives sweet taste, but subsequent effect, i.e. energy intake does not happen. It won't keep this feeling of lack to itself, sends you warning signal in form of huge craving for sweets.
What is then solution? Not forbidding sweets, but preferring healthier alternatives, unprocessed, made at home, for example with fruit base.
2. "Sugar is white poison. It is drug. Sugar is deadly addiction." Are these claims familiar to you too? They are not entirely true, after all can you imagine what world would look like if desserts and cakes caused same tragedies as for example alcoholism? Comparison of sugar with drugs is rather very simplified explanation of fact that sweets stimulate similar areas in brain as addictive substances. It is quite good news, right?
3. Limited sugar intake can help in weight loss, but eating smaller amount of sweet foods is not universal path to weight loss. It depends on total calorie intake. It can happen that sweet courses you exclude from your menu, you replace with something sugar-free, but with higher number of calories. For example, you find out that sweet cereals for breakfast are not so favorable in body shaping. You replace them with sandwich, which however with certain ingredients can contain double calories than cereals with milk. So monitor number of calories, but mainly nutritional content of meals. The healthier, the less processed, the more satisfied stomach and the smaller risk of hunger pangs.
Source: Healthline Media, Netamin
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