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How to Lose 100 Pounds

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Re: How to Lose 100 Pounds

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What's wrong with aspartame? I consume that every day and am a lot skinnier than most people.

Your body reacts to the sweetness and produces insulin, which when not paired with actual sugars, turns into fat. This is known as "Insulin Resistance" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_resistance)

Re: How to Lose 100 Pounds

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What's wrong with aspartame? I consume that every day and am a lot skinnier than most people.

Your body reacts to the sweetness and produces insulin, which when not paired with actual sugars, turns into fat. This is known as "Insulin Resistance" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_resistance )

Honestly curious here, why is stevia excluded from the list in the article? It would seem to fall under the same process and cause equal amount of harm? Or is it the naturalistic fallacy at work?

Re: How to Lose 100 Pounds

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What's wrong with aspartame? I consume that every day and am a lot skinnier than most people.

Your body reacts to the sweetness and produces insulin, which when not paired with actual sugars, turns into fat. This is known as "Insulin Resistance" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_resistance )

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Re: How to Lose 100 Pounds

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post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your body reacts to the sweetness and produces insulin, which when not paired with actual sugars, turns into fat. This is known as "Insulin Resistance" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_resistance )

Honestly curious here, why is stevia excluded from the list in the article? It would seem to fall under the same process and cause equal amount of harm? Or is it the naturalistic fallacy at work?

Oops - meant to reply here. http://www.livestrong.com/article/536467-does-stevia-affect-...

Re: How to Lose 100 Pounds

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What's wrong with aspartame? I consume that every day and am a lot skinnier than most people.

It's a lot easier for some people to avoid what they think are everything processed than some processed things.

In reality, they're surely still eating processed things, but they THINK they aren't, and placebo is all it takes sometimes.

Re: How to Lose 100 Pounds

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post #8

What's wrong with aspartame? I consume that every day and am a lot skinnier than most people.

It's a lot easier for some people to avoid what they think are everything processed than some processed things. In reality, they're surely still eating processed things, but they THINK they aren't, and placebo is all it takes sometimes.

Actually, the reason is that aspartame has a high glycemic index, so your body reacts to it roughly the same way it reacts to sugar.

http://www.glycemicindex.com/

Re: How to Lose 100 Pounds

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What's wrong with aspartame? I consume that every day and am a lot skinnier than most people.

Your body reacts to the sweetness and produces insulin, which when not paired with actual sugars, turns into fat. This is known as "Insulin Resistance" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_resistance )

This is not what insulin resistance is (Read his own link): >Your body reacts to the sweetness and produces insulin, which when not paired with actual sugars, turns into fat.

Additionally, items which digest to glucose trigger insulin production. Aspartame has repeatedly been shown to not. Most other low calorie sweetners, additionally, have not as well.

Saccharin had one study that showed a correlation, however, several other studies did not.

However, protein does: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1946186

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