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Re: Artificial Sweeteners, Caffeine & Insulin Resistance
From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 8 May 2001 22:43:45 -0500 (CDT)
Hi Elaine
I would recommend that you purchase and read the book "Syndrome X" by
Burton Berkson M.D.
It has a chapter about Nutra sweet,Caffiene and the affects it has on
insulin resistance!!
It stated that Caffiene can actually elevate blood glucose levels and
exasserbates IR. Nutrasweet destroys nurons and contributes to the
developement of nervouse system and brain disoders such as Alzhiemer's
disease. Nutra Sweet (asparatime)does not promote insulin resistance
but is bad for your overall health. It also tends to be very hard on
kidney's. the best drink for our bodies is pure clean WATER!
Hope this helped.
>At Tue, 8 May 2001, elaine wrote:
>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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