Is the "sugar-free drink" of the Health Commission necessarily healthy?

Original: Is the "sugar-free drink" of the Health Commission necessarily healthy?

On July 14, 2022, the official website of the Beijing Municipal Health Commission released health knowledge: "Is "sugar-free drink" necessarily healthy?" 》

Obesity, diabetes, gout, acne and other diseases are increasingly high, and behind this is more and "sugar" has a close relationship, when people immersed in the happiness brought by high-sugar drinks, but also have to think about the high sugar to the health of the trouble

Most sugar-free beverage products are marked with "0 sugar, 0 fat, 0 calorie" slogan, you may think that this sugar-free drink does not need to worry about excessive calorie intake, nor worry about affecting health problems, but we should really seriously think about this "sugar-free drink", whether it is really healthy!

In fact, "sugar-free drinks" often add artificial sugar substitutes, such as aspartame, cyclamate, acesulfame potassium and other sweeteners to replace sucrose, its sweetness is dozens of times or even hundreds of times that of white sugar, but the energy contained is very low, such as long-term drinking will also make the body blessed and fat

Sugar substitutes are also not a healthy option for cardiovascular disease, and studies have shown that people who drink artificial sweetener beverages daily have a 32%

Scientific development is a spiraling process, and there may be a process of constantly overturning and drawing new conclusions

In short, in the current research, sugar substitute is better than added sugar, natural sugar substitute is better than artificial sugar substitute, if you can't put the sweetness, choose natural sugar substitute is no harm

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