Most non-nutritive sweeteners such as aspartame and sucralose trigger
the insulin production as well. That is why diet soda's have been found
by some researchers to cause more weight gain than soda's sweetened with
sugar. It is my understanding that stevia has some additional
substances which block this production of insulin. Thus it does not
cause additional hunger from low blood sugar. I am guessing that some
of the problems being reported are when refined stevia is used, these
additional hormones or whatever they are, are not present.
I am NOT an expert on this, and have done relatively little research. I
would highly recommend anyone wanting more information to do additional
research themselves.
Marshall
On 9/26/2012 8:43 PM, Jane MacRoss wrote:
How does this fit in with body responses to non sugar, non harmful
sweeteners, such as Stevia?
Batmanheldij is interesting on this subject.
Jane
This is my understanding. Cane sugar is a complex sugar, containing
fructose and glucose. When the body gets the sweet taste, it
immediately starts producing insulin to "store" the excess sugar.
The glucose portion goes directly into the blood, and replaces the
drop in blood sugar that would normally accompany an insulin surge
maintaining a normal blood sugar level. The fructose portion is then
stored, either in muscle, or as fat for later use. Once the glucose
is used up, insulin levels drop and the stored fructose is converted
to fructose and burned. If only moderate amounts of sugar are
consumed, then virtually no sugar is converted to fat.
Now with pure or near pure fructose, the body once again produces
insulin, dropping the blood sugar (glucose) level. But no glucose
comes in, only fructose comes in. The fructose is stored in muscle
tissue, but is stuck there because of the high insulin levels. Blood
sugar drops, making you hungry, so you eat and or drink more to try
to get the glucose level back up. If it is sweet fructose then that
only adds to the problem. Once the level of fructose reaches a
saturation level in the tissues, it starts being stored as fat, which
is much more difficult to access and burn than sugar stored in the
muscle.
Thus HFCS converts much more into fat than a mixture of glucose and
fructose, such as honey, or cane sugar.
Marshall
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