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Re: Artificial Sweeteners, Caffeine & Insulin ResistanceFrom: elaine (anonymous@obgyn.net)Tue, 8 May 2001 14:43:56 -0500 (CDT)
At Tue, 8 May 2001, jodi wrote: > >At Tue, 8 May 2001, paula wrote: > >>but that is just my reasoning. while i think its sound, im sure that i >>am not 100% correct lol >> >>love, paula >> >i'm not sure my reasoning is 100% correct either. :) that's why i said >i wish there would be a study on this. it doesn't seem like it would be >hard to do, it would be like the IGTT i think, only use caffeine and >nutrasweet instead of glucose, and measure insulin only... i wonder if >anyone will ever do this? > >after typing the above i did a google search on "caffeine and insulin >production" and i did find a lot of things that say yes, insulin levels >are affected by caffeine. one study in dogs found that insulin >production does increase in response to caffeine. i've got a half hour >to kill here so i think i'm gonna keep looking for other studies... most >things seem to be saying insulin is affected by caffeine, but i am not >finding many studies to prove this... the idea must have come from >somewhere though!! >
>- jodi Thanks to everyone for their thoughts & input on this. I recognize that caffeine and articial sweeteners aren't healthful for us under any circumstance -- but as I try to understand & cope with PCOS and IR, it's nice to have a little science in your back pocket to help me (us) make sense of it all. Much appreciated!
-- elaine
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