How to Lose 100 Pounds

18 points by jamesgolick 13 years ago | 11 comments

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

aChrisSmith 13 years ago | |

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)

gte910h 13 years ago | | |

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

ebrenes 13 years ago | | |

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?

gte910h 13 years ago | |

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.

jamesgolick 13 years ago | | |

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/

cpeterso 13 years ago |

James, what challenges (psychological or physiological) did you experience when you started eating meat again? As a vegetarian of 13 years, I have trouble finding low-carb options but I don't think I could eat meat again.