Artificial sweetener

Soft drinks and diet drinks in PET bottles.
These often contain the carcinogenic "sodium benzoate", and in addition, many artificial sweeteners are used.

Artificial sweeteners were once found to be carcinogenic to "cyclamate" and "saccharin" and became a social problem, and their use was banned (the use of saccharin has been re-approved and used in gum and toothpaste. ).
Recently, it has not become a social problem, and instead, artificial sweeteners such as "aspartame" and "sucralose" are predominant.
It is said that aspartame is 500 times as sweet as sugar and sucralose is 600 times as sweet as sugar, but since these do not become calories even when ingested, they are often used in carbonated diet drinks as a zero-calorie diet sweetener. There is.

However, almost all studies that have tested the effectiveness of diets have reported that people who used artificial sweets gained more weight than those who drank regular sodas.
In animal experiments, risks such as growth retardation, red blood cell phenomenon, weakened thyroid function, magnesium and phosphorus deficiency, liver / brain hypertrophy, liver cells and above, ovarian contraction, and increased possibility of cataracts have been pointed out. It has been.
What's more, these alternative artificial sweeteners are said to stimulate the limbic reward circuit and are highly drug-like addictive.
Attracted by the complaints of a simple diet, it is said that there is no source or child to cause illness or unhealth by ingesting chemical substances that are not good for the human body for health and beauty.