Sweetener Benefits

Some people have some strange feelings about fake sweeteners. There are a couple of ways to look at it.

Sweeteners are fake sugars that are basically made to be not digested fully, therefore giving zero calories to your diet. Some just decrease the amount of calories absorbed. Understanding that these sugars are fake and not normally digested by the body is important. It's not natural, but from studies in labs the product is not harmful in normal and small quantities. Literally, you have to drink about 12 sodas a day with the stuff or just be shoveling in the powder. If this is you, you have many other problems to start worrying about like why are you drinking that much soda, and how can you be eating just sweet things. Come on.

For me, I like natural sugar because it gives me the calories. Plus the body is more comfortable with digesting it, in my opinion. I'm not the biggest fan of medicine or manufactured sugars. I like to put whole foods in my body as much as possible. So I use real stuff and keep the quantities low. I think it works well for me.

What these sugars can be good for is those in the process of losing weight and wanting to cut calories. There is no lie that it will help cut! You're comparing 120 calories, 200 calories, 50 calories to zero every time. So, this can be a good method to do what you can. Buy a big bag of Splenda to save money and use the Splenda when you bake too. Just remember not to overdo it.

Using fake sweeteners is not the answer to this problem. If you are only going to switch to fake sugars, you aren't doing enough. Plus, sometimes this kind of sugar will not help making you feel full leading you to eat more food in total. This is also a bad idea. Using the motto "Everything in Moderation" is the way to go, now add sweeteners to that mentality and you can shave a couple more calories per day out of your diet!

In the end, there's no reason to be scared of artificial sweeteners and they can be a part of a lower calorie diet full of flavor. Hope this helps!