The Real Damage Artificial Sweeteners Cause...

Hi all,

Hope everyone is staying fit and faboulous. This week we are going to talk about the damages of artificial sweeteners. Yes, they are great for the waist line, giving your coffee, baked goods, and teas that sweet flavor we all love without the calories. However, what you may not have known is that these little guys are actually doing more damage then good. These sweet tasting, no/low calorie fake sugars are actually causing your neurons to self destruct.

What are neurons you might be asking. Well a neuron is a nerve cell that is the basic building block for your nervous system. They specialize in transmitting information throughout the body.

Alright let's break this down, now I know most of you have heard of MSG ( monosodium glutamate). It is obviously bad for you, as many of you know. Why though?

It is bad because it can cause brain damage. Excessive glutamate in the brain kills the glutamate receptors and the neurons connected to it. This links to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Scary stuff.... It also, leads to weight gain by increasing the amount of insulin produced by the pancreas. A study using mice injected with MSG proved this to be true.

It also causes retinal (eye) cell damage, increases your appetite, and causes Hypothalamus damage. The Hypothalamus controls glads such as endocrine, thyroid, and adrenals. Now you are probably saying to yourself I don't eat MSG and you may not. However it does disguise itself quite well with some of these names. Be sure you double check those food labels.

• Hydrolyzed vegetable protein
• Natural flavoring
• Spices
• Plant protein extract
• Sodium casienate
• Yeast extract
• Textured (vegetable) protein
• Hydrolyzed oat flour
• Malt flavoring
• Natural beef (or chicken) flavoring

Moving on let's touch on Aspartame or you may know it as NutraSweet. This too causes brain damage, increased appetite,  but also causes brain tumors. It causes brain damage the same way MSG does. It causes increased appetite by suppressing the production of serotonin. Serotonin makes you feel full, when these levels are not allowed to rise as they normally do when you eat, you end up craving more and more food.

The big one brain tumors, which is quite scary and gets worse. In 1981 the FDA did a safety experiments on this tasty sweetener, using animals. They found that 25 times more animals developed brain tumors after being fed NutraSweet, then those that did not. Is your mind blown? Mine was.

Not only that this sweetener makes wood alcohol. Aspartame is 10% methanol, which according to the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, "can give rise to formaldehyde, diketopiperazine (a carcinogen,) and a number of other highly toxic derivatives."

The last sweetener I am going to talk about was my favorite Sucralose the common name Splenda. The good news here is that it doesn't cross the blood-brain barrier and should not cause any brain damage.

The bad news is that it is chlorocarbon, which is known as carcingoen (see above) it is used as a pesticide. It has long been known to cause organ, genetic, and reproductive damage. It also suppresses your immune system by reducing the size of the thymus and the amount of good bacteria in the intestines by 50%.

All and all is it really worth saving those extra calories when now know the real damage it is causing? Please say NO!!! Just take the extra calories save your body and use that real sugar or non at all! I hope you enjoyed this weeks article! Until next week!

Pistols...Out!
Xo