{"id":23899,"date":"2017-03-24T18:40:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T13:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/?p=23899"},"modified":"2017-10-13T13:01:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T07:31:12","slug":"are-artificial-sweeteners-good-for-people-with-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/are-artificial-sweeteners-good-for-people-with-diabetes\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Artificial Sweeteners Good For People With Diabetes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23900 size-full\" title=\"Are Artificial Sweeteners Good For People With Diabetes?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/rsz_shutterstock_266606963.jpg\" alt=\"Medicine Online\" width=\"630\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No, artificial sweeteners are not good for people with diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>Artificial sweeteners are composed of chemicals that can cause mild to severe side effects. Since it \u00a0difficult for people with diabetes to curtail the sweet taste for the rest of their lives, FDA has approved several artificial sweeteners.These artificial sweeteners contain chemical compounds like\u00a0<strong>sucralose, aspartame, saccharin, acesulfame potassium, \u00a0neotame, \u00a0advantame.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-Studies have shown that there are <strong>several side effects<\/strong> of these sweeteners.<\/p>\n<p>-Some of these sweeteners like <strong>aspartame cause headaches, anxiety, weight gain, depression and neurological disorders.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-Sucralose <strong>damages liver and kidney<\/strong> and causes stomach cramps, craving for sugar and weight gain.<\/p>\n<p>-Acesulfame potassium contains a <strong>carcinogen<\/strong> (cancer causing substance) and also causes <strong>headache, depression, increased insulin release<\/strong> and insulin resistance.<\/p>\n<p>-Additionally, these sweeteners are known to <strong>cause obesity, and heart disease<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, it is better to <strong>limit the use of artificial sweeteners<\/strong> or avoid using them as much as you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/rsz_shutterstock_266606963.jpg\" alt=\"Medicine Online\" width=\"630\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[56,222],"class_list":["post-23899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diabetes","tag-anti-diabetic","tag-diabetes-fact"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Are Artificial Sweeteners Good For People With Diabetes? - Tata 1mg Capsules<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"No, artificial sweeteners are not good for people with diabetes. 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