What are the side effects of diet sugar?

[WildStar]

I'm about to reduce my sugar usage in my coffe and other drinks and I want to to add ( Artificial Sweeteners / Sugar Substitutes ) or what is know by diet sugar , and I've heard that there is lots of side effects and I need to know if it's really dangerous or not ?

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I'm going to mix natural sugar with diet sugar to have the taste and reduce the amount of natural sugar I'm using because I've been using so much sugar lately because of coffe and latte , what do you think of that do any one of you have an idea about that ?

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can anyone tell me more about my last update , or what to do ?

[Lommelun]

You'll find people claiming that the popular artificial sweeteners used today cause everything from headaches to cancer. But clinical studies does not show any correlation between usage of artificial sweeteners and any of these conditions. A moderate intake of artificial sweeteners (aspartam, acesulfam, sucralose) is not going to affect you negatively in any mentionable degree.

But all of the sweeteners mentioned above are known to have a mild laxative effect. So eating a lot of it might give you the runs.

And they may cause insability in your body purely from psychological reasons. You taste sweet, but your body isn't getting any sugar and gets confused. This is not shown in studies though since it is not really a physiological effect.

What studies have shown is that there is correlation between drinking artificially sweetened drinks and obesity. But the causality is most likely backwards - fat people drink diet soda, slim people don't. Sweeteners do not make you fat.

You'd be better off learning to drink tea and coffe without sweetener.

[martyfellow]

There's evidence that some of these substances can damage your kidneys or liver, and most importantly, affect your blood pressure. But using them short term, just to lose weight, and then stopping the usage of these chemicals, should not be a worry.

Just don't use them for years on end.

[martyfellow]

UPdate: Yes, a good idea to mix natural sugar with the artificial kind. But it would be better just to stop sweetening your coffee completely.

It would save you calories, and you'd be able to taste the coffee much better.

[justbanANNAz]

ok... no one laugh at me.. I didn't know there was such thing as diet sugar...

oh... sweeteners? I know them! :) I feel better now.

why would it be dangerous? theyre used in so many things! unless manufacturers are trying to take over the world by food poisoning us! :O

[Luv2BRealExotic13]

Uh cancer, diabetes, possible ulcerative bleeding, deter acting things in your body. Builds up formaldehyde in your body if you consume it often and enough that's where the chaos happens.

[Luv2BRealExotic13]

If you use a good natural sugar you still wouldn't need to use artificial sweetner. Get organic cane sugar it works well to sweeten coffees and teas.

[Lommelun]

No trouble mixing artificial sweeteners and sugar. The only thing is that you're conditioning yourself to very strong sweetness, it would be better to manage to reduce the amount of sweetness all over. But the mix in itself is perfectly ok.

[questioner1991]

cancer it is worst for you than sugar.

[questioner1991]

whether mixed or not, it is still bad for you.

[Anonymous]

cancer