Why Do We Need Artificial Sweeteners?

When drinking diet drinks who stops to wonder what it can cause and what it contains? Most Diet drinks have artificial sweeteners. Artificial sweeteners are sugar substitutes. Most artificial sweeteners are used to advertise losing weight. Additionally there has been a history of some artificial sweeteners backfiring. Yet some are still used today because it’s are cheaper to produce. Thus food and drug Administration should put stronger guidelines in place for artificial sweeteners for consumers to educate them on the affects to their health.
Drinks and foods with sugar substitutes aren’t always good for. “Scans showed that the brains of people who regularly drank diet soda were less active in areas linked to feelings of reward...Other human studies have shown that people who drink lots of diet sodas are more likely to be overweight.” Most …show more content…
“ For one thing, Ayoob says, it's not healthy to rely on super-sweet food all the time. If everything we eat is sweetened, our tastes can get out of whack.” So, although most artificial sweeteners aren’t dangerous. Eating too much can damage your taste buds. “Substitute sweeteners might backfire in any case, says Susan Swithers at Purdue University. ‘Things that taste sweet would normally be things that provide us energy,’ she explains. Our sense of taste helps us learn how much energy to expect from a meal.” Accordingly, artificial sweeteners gives us no energy because most of them don’t have calories unlike sugar. “The body does not use insulin to metabolize polyols, so they are popular sweeteners among people with diabetes and people on low-carbohydrate diets. Consumed in large amounts, however, they can cause digestive upsets, including gas, bloating, and diarrhea.” Although diabetics and people on low carbohydrate use this sweetener the consumption of too much can cause many health problems. Thus the consumer should cut back. There are many problems sugar substitute can