Artificial Sweeteners
What You’ll Learn:
- Why certain artificial sweeteners actually cause you to gain weight, despite having 0 calories
- It’s the hormonal effect of what you eat, rather than the amount of calories, that puts you into a weight gaining mode
- Artificial sweeteners can also elevate insulin
- Try natural, healthy sweeteners
Very interesting, understandable information. I stopped drinking Diet Coke about a year ago. Every once in a while I crave it but when I do I have a regular coke – small serving once ever month of two – and that takes care of it. Am I correct in thinking that the regular sugary coke is not as bad as Diet Coke with splenda or aspartame?
Hi Susan,
The only thing that’s worse than coke is diet coke 😉
How about fresh squeezed apple juice with soda water? Still not perfect, but much better than coke.
Jon
this is a little of topic but I juice fruit and vegetables a lot
I drink at least 32 ounces a day
my resipie is apples, kale, swiss chard, lemon, cucumber, and beets
what i was want to know is if the fact that there is a lot of sugars in the fruit and root vegetables do they cause much of an insulin response
I just don’t want to over do it
Hi Samual,
You are correct, beetroot and apple will cause an insulin spike. A suggestion would be to limit having these in only one of your juices per day, and ensure that you drink this juice slowly. Jon’s favourite juice recipe is a mix of celery, cucumber, lemon, spinach and a small amount of ginger.
Best regards
Den – The GM Team
Hello Jon! What about Stevia? Still okay? Can you use as much as you want? Thanks.
Cindy Hensley
Stevia is fine as long as it’s just pure stevia leaf extract and nothing else.
Wow! That was wonderful! Thank you Jon!
Stevia is fine as long as it’s just pure stevia leaf extract and nothing else.
Thanks Cindy!
Thanks Jon! I also buy Knudsen’s organic blueberry juice which is the only listed ingredient. I use a couple quick splashes in my green smoothies of flax seed, kale, celery, cucumber, parsley, cilantro, several squeezes of cinnamon, half can of pineapple chunks with half of the pineapple juice (only listed ingredients), green pepper, avocado, lemon juice and the meat, green apple, some sea salt from Spain, almond milk, maybe a splash of o.j. When I don’t use the whole orange, sometimes frozen strawberries, and around 4 handfuls of ice then as many packages of stevia as it needs. Usually 4 or 5. The blueberry juice is very tart so I don’t think the fruit has much natural sugars. I usually put a bit more than 4 tbs. of flax seed in the blender first and chop them up real fine and put in a little container until the end. Before I put the ice in, I pour half of the almost overflowing blender in a large mason jar and put that in the fridge for the next day. Then I add a little more Kale or spinach and blend till pretty smooth. I then put the ice in and maybe one or two more packets of stevia. Blend it up real quick till the ice is in miniature tiny strawberry seed size. I’m careful to not let the motor ever heat up. Sometimes I use coconut water as part of the liquid. It makes two huge smoothies for my sister and I and then fixing up the other half into a full blender for the next day.