Sugar Free Products and Weight Loss
I am asked on a regular basis by my clients about consuming sweeteners and sugar-free foods. In fact as we walk into any grocery store, drug store or even the counters inside the gas stations, there are countless “sugar free” items available. Sugar free products and sweeteners have become such a large consumer product yet it seems that America still has an obesity problem.
The sweetener in most “sugar free” chocolate bars for example, is a form of carbohydrate known as sugar alcohol. Other names that you might find listed under the nutritional values are sorbitol or mannitol. The sugar alcohols are not as easily digested, so they do not drive up blood sugar levels as quickly as sugar and they often “pass right through” without being digested at all.
Sweeteners like Sucralose and aspartame (Splenda and Nutrasweet) can’t give the product the right texture, or “mouth-feel”. For this reason other chemicals are added to provide similar texture and good taste as non-sugar free items. These types of sweeteners also have a lot of information about its’ possible neurotoxic and carcinogenic effects on the body.
The other thing that most sugar free sweetenerss have in abundance is fat. Taken together, and in quantity, and you may be running to the bathroom even as the pounds are applying themselves to your hips!
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Don – You didn’t mention aspartane which produces formaldehyde when it breaks down in the digestive track!!!