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Diet soda and sweeteners behind them are still a scam even if they don’t “cause cancer.” They’re a scam because they still cause insulin response. Pancreas cran
by atlex2 3y ago
Diet soda and sweeteners behind them are still a scam even if they don’t “cause cancer.” They’re a scam because they still cause insulin response. Pancreas cranks out insulin after tasting the soda, and there no blood sugar to react with.
My uncle drank tons of Diet Coke and got pancreatic cancer. Doesn’t mean diet soda caused his pancreatic cancer, but he definitely didn’t loose weight by drinking the stuff.
- atlex2 3y agoUpdate: hmm. I might be mistaken. There are articles that measure insulin levels after drinking the soda. These show no connection for diet soda. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5118762/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5118762/ https://www.oatext.com/Blood-glucose-and-insulin-response-to-artificially--and-sugar-sweetened-sodas-in-healthy-men.php https://www.oatext.com/Blood-glucose-and-insulin-response-to... But there are also articles that describe what’s called “anticipatory response” to food/drink. I didn’t see an article connecting diet soda in particular to insulin response, but possibly it’s the same for things that only taste sweet. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3056926/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3056926/
- freedomben 3y ago> My uncle drank tons of Diet Coke and got pancreatic cancer. Doesn’t mean diet soda caused his pancreatic cancer, but he definitely didn’t loose weight by drinking the stuff. The point for most people of Diet Coke isn't to lose weight. It's to avoid the harm caused by sugar, while still having something to drink. Diet sodas are definitely way, way better for anybody with sugar senstivities or diabetes. Plain water would be better, but that doesn't make Diet Coke a "scam."
- worik 3y ago> The point for most people of Diet Coke isn't to lose weight. Anecdotally I see different things. People overweight, or who fear that, use aspartame IMO
- zwieback 3y agoIs the science good on this claim? I keep hearing it and we should be more concerned about insulin spikes but is there really a correlation with sweeteners?
- zerocrates 3y agoIf diet soda really caused a big insulin response while containing no sugar, wouldn't we see things like a heavy binge on diet soda causing hypoglycemia? Which I've never heard of.
- bufferoverflow 3y agoErythritol doesn't cause insulin response. Stevia doesn't. Monk fruit extract doesn't.
- voz_ 3y agoWhy is everyone spelling lose wrong?
- CPLX 3y agoIs there any evidence for this. I see it constantly in internet arguments but never anywhere else.
- autoexec 3y ago> They’re a scam because they still cause insulin response. Some sweeteners can cause insulin spikes (sorbitol and xylitol for example), but aspartame does not. There's some evidence that it can still cause insulin resistance though.
- selectodude 3y agoI have family that died of pancreatic cancer before aspartame existed. So there’s a datapoint that undoes your data point.
- Kirby64 3y agoProvide your sources here. Even if they do cause an insulin response (which a bunch of people have noted, is not true for many sweeteners), they do not have calories. If your uncle drank sugared soda instead, I'm certain he'd weigh significantly more than his life drinking diet soda. Diet sodas are a bit of a trap people fall into, though: if you switch to diet soda and don't also fix your otherwise unhealthy diet, then it won't really help you. It's better than drinking sugared soda, but not exactly the whole solution.