As we all know, our grocery store shelves are packed with products claiming to be ‘fat free’ or ‘reduced calories’, or ‘low fat.’ There has been a lot of controversy over whether these artificial sweetners really have the best interest of your body in mind. Sweetners such as: aspartame, saccharine, sucralose, and acesulfame potassium are used to ACT as a sugar or sweetener in your body. People use them to lower their calories and aid in weight loss.

While these substances do save you calories, the truth is that anything with the label ‘diet’ is nowhere close to being healthy for you and can easily be just as bad for you, if not worse than the sugar or corn syrup you are trying to avoid.

How does your body react on a physiological level to the diet colas and other products?

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