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Without being aware of food products manufactured food companies have added "sweeteners" into their products. Unfortunately these sweeteners can transform our bodies into fat hoarders machine.
Without realizing it we have to consume food products that contain artificial sweeteners. Many researchers reveals that artificial sweeteners cause obesity is the culprit. Excessive consumption can lead to obesity. According to a study published the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, per day per person consuming these artificial sweeteners as much as 228 calories and obesity rates have increased over two times within a period of 5 years.
Sugar Substitute
Judging from its energy sources, sweeteners can be distinguished on nutritive sweeteners (high energy) - sucrose (sugar), fructose, glucose, dextrose, honey and non-nutritive sweetener (vacuum energy) - the synthetic sweetener. Examples of synthetic sweeteners such as saccharin, cyclamate, aspartame, acesulfame-K and sucralase. This synthetic sweetener vacuum energy that is very popular and well used for the purpose of diet and diabetes mellitus.
Fructose Trigger Obesity
Beware of excessive use of fructose - a type of sugar found naturally in fruits and honey. Fructose does not require digestion process when entered in our throats. Therefore he can go directly into the bloodstream quickly. Fructose into the classification of "slow releasing" because the body can not use fructose without even changed first. And fatal fructose in the liver directly converted into fat.
In the process of metabolism, one type of sugar that can be used as a source of instant energy, which is stored in the liver and muscles to be used and converted into fat. Because of the strong sweetness, so many food industry companies are fond of fructose as a sweetener in food, because besides the price is cheaper, its sweetness is also two times sweeter than sugar (sukrosa. When the sweetness of sugar are numbered 1, then the rate of fructose sweetness is 1.7. That means fructose 1.7 times sweeter than sugar.
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