Can I drink sugar substitutes with 0 sugar and 0 calories while losing weight?

Medical guidance: Tian Shuang, attending physician from the Nutrition Department of the Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Guangdong Province, may have known that during the process of losing weight, the intake of carbohydrates must be controlled. Speaking people means eating less sugar. The first thing to quit is the usual cola, milk tea, etc. People who drink drinks as water say they cannot accept it. Sugar substitute drinks with 0 sugar and 0 calories have become popular drinks. They can pass the addiction and not consume sugar. There is really nothing more beautiful than this. Can you really drink these sugar-substitute drinks with 0 sugar and 0 calories? This is also a question that my outpatient patients often ask. Friendly tip: Be careful to fall into this sweet trap!

The sweetness in drinks with

0 sugar

0 calories mainly comes from sugar substitutes, also known as sweeteners, and have the characteristics of extremely low calories or cannot be metabolized and absorbed by the human body. It mainly includes sugar alcohols: xylitol, sorbitol, maltitol, etc., which are added in the well-known Yuanqi Forest, and the calories are far lower than sucrose; synthetic types: aspartame, acesulfame, sucralose, etc., are very sweet and only need a little bit to have a high sweetness. The common zero-degree cola is added with aspartame; natural plant extracts: karose, stevia glycoside, rohan glycoside, etc.

Studies have shown that people who eat artificial sweeteners do not lose weight compared with people who eat sugar, and long-term consumption of sugar substitutes can make people rely on sweetness, also known as sugar addiction. Although sugar substitutes have no calories, they can pass the sweetness. Receptor stimulates brain neurons and increases appetite, indirectly leads to excessive calorie intake, and psychologically craving for sweetness. This is not a healthy lifestyle.

At the same time, studies have also shown that intake of artificial sweeteners increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and cerebrovascular disease. Aspartame is associated with increased cerebrovascular risk, and acesulfame and sucralose are associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease. Seeing this, I may still have questions: Should I decisively give up sugar substitute drinks or continue drinking them?

To sum up, I suggest that everyone 1. You must clearly realize that replacing added sugar with sugar substitutes does not mean you can rest easy, but there are still certain health risks.

2. Summarize it with a common saying in medicine,"Putting aside the dose and talking about toxicity, you are all hooligans." If you are a weight loss person and are working diligently to control your diet, you may wish to occasionally reward yourself with a sweet 0-sugar 0-calorie drink. Increase happiness and will not have any impact on your health.

3. For sweeteners that have been repeatedly named in various studies, such as aspartame, it is always right to drink as little as possible.

(Correspondent: Lin Huifang/Editor: Liao Yingyao)