Monday, November 15, 2010

Grocery Store Wars (2005)

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVrIyEu6h_E&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Artificial Sweeteners Make You Fat by Dr. Gary Huber

http://www.healthyalterego.com/index.php/2010/08/artificial-sweeteners-make-you-fat/

Can Sugar Substitutes Make You Fat? - TIME

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1711763,00.html

Diet Sweeteners Can Make You Sick and Fat

http://www.naturalnews.com/022785.html

Sweet-taste receptors, low-energy sweeteners, gluc... [Br J Nutr. 2010] - PubMed result

 These studies have given rise to major speculations that the ingestion of food and beverages containing low-energy sweeteners may act via these intestinal mechanisms to increase obesity and the metabolic syndrome due to a loss of equilibrium between taste receptor activation, nutrient assimilation and appetite. However, data from numerous publications on the effects of low-energy sweeteners on appetite, insulin and glucose levels, food intake and body weight have shown that there is no consistent evidence that low-energy sweeteners increase appetite or subsequent food intake, cause insulin release or affect blood pressure in normal subjects.