Artificial sweeteners have harmful side-effects and they do not help overweight people to lose weight.

Artificial sweeteners are very cheap to produce and so are very profitable to the manufacturers who add them to their food and drink products. They are 'dieting' products, marketed with the claim that by reducing the calorie content in a product they will assist overweight consumers to lose excess weight, but this claim is false. Not only is it false, but some of the sweeteners - most notably Aspartame and the new sweetener kid on the block, Neotame, a relative of Aspartame - interfere very profoundly with the intricate biochemistry of the body, risking serious and permanent health side-effects. These include neurological damage, increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and more. If you value your health and the health of your family, as I am sure you do, I advise you to check the nutritional information on packs carefully, and to avoid artificial sweeteners. There are many internet sources of warning information about these unsafe substances. The very informative article I have been reading today is Dr Mercola's article.
And here is a safe, sure way to lose excess weight.

Discover fast, safe, effective tips for weight loss without using drugs, counting calories or going hungry

The fastest way to lose excess weight is to cut down on salt/sodium. This reduces water weight/fluid retention.

Other tips include 1) increasing calcium intake, which reduces fluid retention AND fat retention and 2) lowering carbs and increasing intake of healthy saturated fats.

3) Avoid prescribed pharmaceutical drugs as far as you can because they are a major, and increasing, cause of fluid retention/salt sensitivity. See weight gain from amitriptyline and other antidepressants and also weight gain from prescribed steroids, HRT and other prescription drugs.

4) Cut down on bread and processed food. Cook fresh foods instead.

5) Avoid artifical sweeteners, including aspartame, saccharine, sucralose, diet drinks and low calorie drinks.

Why does the EFSA defend the use of the sweetener, Aspartame?

Why does the European Food Safety Authority defend the use of the sweetener, aspartame, when long-term studies on developing rats by a prestigious European research institute have shown that aspartame causes cancer?

Read article on the website of the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) (UK)

I repeat: Why does the European Food Safety Authority defend the use of the sweetener, aspartame, when long-term studies on developing rats by a prestigious European research institute have shown that aspartame causes cancer?

What's in it for the EFSA?

Marks & Spencer and Asda will be removing E-numbers from their own-brand food and drink products because of concerns about children's health.

M&S and Asda to axe E-numbers - Telegraph

Extract:

"Artificial colours and flavours are being phased out by two major food chains, it was revealed yesterday.

All 9,000 of Asda's own-label food and soft drink products will be free of E-numbers by the end of 2007.

Marks & Spencer is removing artificial colours and flavours from 99% of its 4,500 own-brand lines over the same period. The changes follow concerns over the effect of certain E-numbers on children's health.

They come after rival food chain Sainsbury's last month pledged to remove artificial colours and flavours from its 120 own-label soft drinks.

Asda said aspartame, hydrogenated fat and monosodium glutamate would also be pulled from all own-brand food and soft drink products by the end of the year. It is spending over £30 million on reformulating the products.

E-number colours will either be replaced with natural alternatives such as fruit and vegetable extracts - or dropped entirely. Artificial flavours will also be substituted by natural ingredients where possible. For example, the sweetener aspartame will be replaced by sucralose which is made from sugar, Asda said."

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