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Diet drinks and blood sugar

  • 05-07-2011 3:46pm
    #1
    Glinda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 224 ✭✭


    Don't really drink Diet Coke or the like, but I am partial to 'Ballygowan with a hint of fruit' which has three calories per hundred ml.

    Now someone has told me that artificial sugar causes the same insulin response in the body as real sugar. This means that your body produces a rush of insulin with nothing to do (since there isn't any real sugar in the drink) and mops up lots of your existing blood sugar (that was there before the drink) and this causes a drop in your blood sugar, which causes you to crave sugar and leads to snacking on sweet things.

    I have no idea whether this is nonsense or not. Any views?


Comments

  • #2
    Captain Bouncy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭Captain Bouncy


    Hi Glinda,

    I have read the same, more concerning is that the sweetener is typically Aspartame, there is a lot research that links this to depression and weight gain (google it) I would try to avoid any drink or food that uses it.


  • #3
    boomtown84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 612 ✭✭✭boomtown84


    It's nonsense.artificial sweeteners do not cause an insulin spike.


  • #4
    Captain Bouncy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭Captain Bouncy


    Wow Boomtown84, a bit of a generalisation there, but perhaps you know something conclusive that other researchers have missed,

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_soda

    Possibly the most anybody can say it that the evidence is inconclusive.


  • #5
    Eviemay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭Eviemay


    Hi, first time poster on here. :)
    If it was the case that artificial sweetners caused insulin spikes/low blood sugars, it would be the case that alot of people would be slipping into comas due to hypoglycemia. I don't think we've anything to worry about. ;)

    I also wouldn't want anyone suffering raised blood sugar levels/type 2/boarderline diabetes to read this thread and think that drinking diet drinks would help to lower their sugar levels; it won't.

    HTH


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