0 sugar 0 calorie beverage, drink as much as you want without getting fat?

How many calories are in a 500ml bottle of Fat House Happy Water?

About 215 calories! Its calories are equivalent to 1 bowl of rice, 1 steamed bun, or 5 steamed dumplings.

Two bottles of Coke a day can make all your efforts to lose weight go to waste.

Therefore, many friends who cannot resist the temptation of cola often choose sugar-free cola. But will you really not get fat if you drink a beverage that claims to have 0 sugar, 0 calories, and 0 calories?

Of course! No!

Although the sugar-free beverages sold on the market do not contain common sugars such as sucrose, artificial sweeteners are used instead to maintain the taste of the beverage.

Scientific evidence shows that long-term and excessive intake of artificial sweeteners will not only fail to help you lose weight, but will also cause a series of effects on your body.

First, let’s understand what artificial sweeteners are?

This is a chemical substance that has nothing but sweetness. Common ones include aspartame, acesulfame potassium, saccharin, sucralose (sucralose), etc. Its sweetness is hundreds or even thousands of times that of sucrose, but the calories are often very few or almost zero.

This is the sugar substitute of your dreams, right?!

In fact, sweeteners are not real sugar. After entering the body, they will trigger a related chain reaction.

Under normal circumstances, when we consume sugar, the blood sugar level in the body will rise accordingly, and the pancreas will secrete insulin, which will prompt the blood sugar to be converted into the energy and fat needed by the human body and restore normal blood sugar levels.

However, artificial sweeteners disguise themselves as sugar and stimulate insulin secretion, but there is no real sugar to absorb, which will induce hunger and sugar cravings in the body.

At the same time, the intake of sweeteners will reduce the brain's sensitivity to sweetness, prompting people to tend to consume more sugar when eating other foods.

What’s more important is that when we drink sugar-free beverages, we always feel that we are drinking “zero-calorie beverages”, and we will subconsciously indulge ourselves in excessive food intake, resulting in excessive calories.

Many people think that since beverages do not contain sugar, they will definitely not affect blood sugar.

However, at the 2018 European Diabetes Congress, a study published by Australian researchers showed that artificial sweeteners can also raise blood sugar, mainly because they can disrupt intestinal flora, which further affects metabolism.

The results of human trials conducted by researchers showed that after consuming artificial sweeteners for two weeks, the beneficial bacteria in the subjects' intestines, such as Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus and Bacteroides, decreased significantly, while the number of 11 pathogenic bacteria increased, and even pathogenic bacteria that did not exist in healthy people appeared.

👉These changes will lead to poor glucose regulation in the body, causing diarrhea and affecting intestinal health;

👉At the same time, it may also induce type 2 diabetes. A Swedish study also found that drinking a cup (about 200ml) of sugar-free beverage a day will increase the risk of type 2 diabetes by 18% (sugar-containing beverages are 21%).

👉It also increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. A French study found that people who regularly drink sugar-free drinks are 20% more likely to develop cardiovascular disease than those who do not drink sugar-free drinks.

👉In addition, the intake of artificial sweeteners may interfere with the metabolism of amino acids in the body, thereby affecting the balance of neurotransmitters, such as affecting the level of catecholamines in the brain, causing the nervous system to become overexcited, and more likely to cause anxiety and depression.

Many experiments have shown that excessive intake of artificial sweeteners increases the risk of various diseases.

However, it is foolish to talk about toxicity without considering the dosage. Its safety has been confirmed by international food safety agencies. If used within the prescribed range, it will not cause harm to the human body.

So, sugar-free drinks can be an occasional treat or indulgence, but not something you drink every day.

Wouldn’t it be nice to drink more hot water?

I would especially like to give a piece of advice to those who are trying to lose weight: If you can’t even control your mouth, how can you control your weight?