Posted on 06/07/2024 12:05:36 PM PDT by CaptainK
A low-calorie sweetener called xylitol used in many reduced-sugar foods and consumer products such as gum and toothpaste may be linked to nearly twice the risk of heart attacks, stroke and death in people who consume the highest levels of the sweetener, a new study found.
“We gave healthy volunteers a typical drink with xylitol to see how high the levels would get and they went up 1,000-fold,” said senior study author Dr. Stanley Hazen, director of the Center for Cardiovascular Diagnostics and Prevention at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute.
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Guess I should have said, it , killed my neighbors dog, she ate their young sons pack of gum he left on a table. She was a wonderful dog, never had any experience with hounds before, nice dogs.
It’s fatal to dogs.
Xylitol is naturally occurring but most is made from xylose. It is found naturally in plums and strawberries.
My opinion is that cane sugar is probably the least worst sweetener. None of them is good for you.
yeah, I knew what you meant :) Unfortunate loss there.
Yes, it’s called sucrose..............
I give up.
More CNN junk science crap.
I use Stevia. It’s made from leaves of the Stevia plant.
Try natural, Monk Fruit Sweetner
Xylitol isn’t an artificial sweetener, though. It’s derived naturally and isn’t synthesized in a lab environment.
I use it almost exclusively at home and I’m still here to type.
Some peanut butters contain xylitol. Have to be really careful if you use peanut butter to get your dog to take medication.
So, let’s see, last year it was Stevia and Erythritol that was bad for you. The long time standards have long been know for hazardous health outcomes. Sugar is “poison” still.
Recently, I read and article that touted the benefits of drinking black tea, BUT if you put lemon it it it becomes a potentially lethal cocktail.
Can’t win.
Sorbitol and KNO3 makes good fire starter and rocket fuel.
““When you eat sugar, your glucose level may go up 10% or 20% but it doesn’t go up a 1,000-fold,” said Hazen, who also directs the Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Microbiome and Human Health.”
OK. Without being able to see the actual study, I’ll call it utterly bogus!
An artificial sweetener drives up glucose levels 100,000% (1,000 fold)? Not a chance in hell!
OK, found a summary. It says “Many low-calorie sweeteners are sugar alcohols that also are produced endogenously, albeit at levels over 1000-fold lower than observed following consumption as a sugar substitute.”
Notice the HUGE difference: xylitol levels after eating it as a sweetener is 1,000 times greater than what your body produces on its own. I don’t know how much SUGAR your body produces endogenously, but I’d bet it is vastly lower than what happens after eating some apple pie!
A Time article says: “The researchers confirmed this mechanism by giving people both a xylitol-based and a glucose-based beverage to drink, and they found that xylitol levels jumped 1000 fold in the plasma immediately after they drank the xylitol beverage, along with levels of clotting factors, but not after they consumed the glucose beverage.”
NO KIDDING. If you consume xylitol, you’ll have more in your blood than you do if you eat sugar instead! And...how MUCH did they consume in their “xylitol-based” drink?
Now, as to heart disease: Is it likely that people using sugar substitutes are often doing so because they are overweight - and thus at higher risk?
Is this another “Wet streets cause rain” article?
There should be a study done for a complete list of products that have that stuff in them! ...imho
Maybe it’s why so many young people are dropping dead with all the artificial sweetener drinks they use???.
“Killed my next door neighbors Plott hound”
I had not heard of that Bred. Just looked it up, beautiful hound.
AA study published in Nature Medicine found that people with higher levels of erythritol in their blood were twice as likely to experience a heart attack or stroke compared to those with lower levels. The study suggested that erythritol may cause blood platelets to clot more readily, which can lead to heart attacks or strokes if the clots travel to the heart or brain.
FTA: “We gave healthy volunteers a typical drink with xylitol to see how high the levels would get and they went up 1,000-fold,” said senior study author....”
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Their levels of what?
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