The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (Why Intermittent Fasting Is the Key to Controlling Your Weight)

by Jason Fung

The study found a 30 percent increase risk of cardiovascular events (heart attacks and strokes) in those drinking two or more diet drinks daily. The benefits for heart attack, stroke, diabetes and metabolic syndrome were similarly elusive. Artificial sweeteners are not good. They are bad. Very bad. Despite reducing sugar, diet sodas do not reduce the risk of obesity, metabolic syndrome, strokes or heart attacks. But why? Because it is insulin, not calories, that ultimately drives obesity and metabolic syndrome. The important question is this: Do artificial sweeteners increase insulin levels? Sucralose13 raises insulin by 20 percent, despite the fact that it contains no calories and no sugar. This insulin-raising effect has also been shown for other artificial sweeteners, including the “natural” sweetener stevia.

Sweetener triggers insulin too