miércoles, 4 de enero de 2017

No evidence sugar-free soft drinks aid weight loss – study

Are you trying to lose weight? This article from The Guardian could be interesting.

Soft drinks made with artificial sweeteners, such as diet colas, do not help people lose weight and may be as big a part of the obesity problem as the full-sugar versions, academics have said.
A paper by researchers at Imperial College London and two universities in Brazil contends that artificially sweetened beverages, often called diet drinks, are just as big a problem as those containing sugar. There is no evidence they help people lose weight, they say, possibly because people assume they can eat more because their drinks are low in sugar.
The report says the combined factors of what goes into artificially sweetened drinks, how they are consumed, and their environmental impact mean that “far from helping to solve the global obesity crisis [they are] a potential risk factor for highly prevalent chronic diseases”.
Sugar-sweetened drinks, including sports beverages, have been identified as one of the major causes of obesity. Many countries, including Mexico and France, have introduced sugar taxes to try to reduce consumption, and the UK plans to do so next year.
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he British Soft Drinks Association dismissed the paper. Its director general, Gavin Partington, said: “Contrary to the claims made in this article, scientific research shows that low-calorie sweeteners, such as those found in diet drinks, help consumers manage their weight as part of a calorie-controlled diet.
“At a time when we are trying to encourage people to reduce their overall calorie intake it is extremely unhelpful that products that contain no sugar, let alone calories, are demonised without evidence.”
He added: “It’s worth bearing in mind that the UK soft drinks sector is the only category in which sugar is consistently falling year on year – over 17% since 2012.”


Read here the whole article:  The Guardian_ Soft drinks

3 comentarios:

  1. This is a controversial topic, but is well known, from studies in rodents that, on one hand, artificial sweeteners affect the control mechanisms of appetite in the brain, encouraging an increased food intake as well as sugar craving, as well as interfere with learned responses that normally contribute to glucose and energy homeostasis. And, on the other hand, there are growing evidence that supports a negative impact of this kind of substances on the gut microbiota, that could lead to an increased cardiometabolic risk, similar to that of obesity.

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  2. Thanks, Javier. Really interesting.

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  3. The common thought of losing weight is to prevent ingestion and drinking food and drinks that contain lots of calories. Smoothies square measure one in all those who simply offer drinkers further unwanted calories.
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