The Dangers of Artificial Sugar Substitutes: Increased Inflammation Index Leading to Obesity and Edema

With the popularization of health awareness, more and more people know that added sugar is harmful to health and switch to artificial sugar substitutes. However, doctors say that artificial sweeteners such as zero-calorie aspartame will destroy the intestinal flora and increase the risk of obesity in the human body. Inflammation index makes people fat and edema. A man was obese and edema due to body inflammation due to eating artificial sugar substitutes.

Physician Liu Boren, an expert in nutritional and functional medicine, stated in “The Explosion of the Small Universe” that the World Health Organization recommends that the daily intake of refined sugar per person should not exceed 10% of the total daily calorie intake, which translates to no more than 50 grams per person per day. Therefore, they turned to artificial sugar substitutes such as aspartame, “but sugar substitutes can lead to an increase in the body’s inflammatory index. Recent studies have even pointed out that sugar substitutes can increase the inflammatory index and lead to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease.”

He said that when a man went to the doctor, he said that he usually only ate artificial sugar substitutes, but he still gained weight and edema. Because aspartame and other artificial sugar substitutes will destroy the good bacteria in the intestines, increase the bad bacteria, and expand the gaps in the intestinal mucosa, causing intestinal leaks and increasing the body’s inflammation index. “The increase in the body’s inflammation index will lead to Obesity, edema.”

Compared with added sugar, he believes that artificial sugar substitutes are more harmful. “If you really want to eat sugar, it is recommended to eat a small amount of natural added sugar, which is safer and healthier.”