A Review of Internet Advice on Zero Calorie Sweeteners
From personal memory of ideas and advice, covering my opinions, glad reactions to new official opinions, and notes added on general biological factors.
First Edition. January 2nd, 2024.
This is an informal review of many loose and overlapping overall ideas, which I gained from internet pages that I quickly skimmed, or more methodically studied, by my internet searches on keywords such as “zero calorie sweetener dangers,” “aspartame poisoning,” or “monk fruit good or bad.”
Zero calorie sweeteners cause unwanted flab body weight increase.
I was surprised to read that zero calorie sweetened beverages and foods were considered by some authors to cause unwanted flab weight gain, with the zero number being contradictory to actual results.
(From my freshman college education, I summarize my opinion that desired or preferred weight gain of muscle size and material differs from unwanted weight gain of flabby extra fat totals. Also, attractive and thick flabby fat layers internal to skin or dermis visible exteriors, are natural and desired to be far greater in weight and size than zero body fat would be. Fictionally and impossibly, zero body fat would be dangerously uninsulated thermally, and would also be dangerously low on fatty resources for going between meals and for backup fat energy sources in case of food scarcity.)
I was also surprised to read, that in contrast, high calorie cane sugar sweetened beverages and foods were considered to not cause unwanted flab weight gain. To me that means that the large numbers of calories labelled for true “sugar cane” (white or brown) sugary sodas, for instance, would instead fuel bodily and (I suppose) mental energies and metabolism throughput. That’s calories of sugar metabolized in biological cellular interiors with blood cell delivered dioxygen, dinitrogen, humidity, and more that originates very briefly from inhaling into lung sacks, or groups of alveoli, as I recall loosely. That means the calorie number (with inhaled air added cellularly, and ironically of no calorie value without such air — “some assembly required”) is an estimated and rounded-off number indicative not of larger numbers being bad or burdening, but instead indicative of larger numbers being a great benefit, to qualities while moment-to-moment living and actively conscious or unconscious. The idea that such news sparked in me was that, rather than some idea of burning calories (inaccurately and by myth previously couched as akin to “getting rid of the calories”), possibly a better idea is that those calories are enjoyable and lively increases in vital ways and the numbers or counts of kilocalories are estimated indicators of “throughput” of bodily cellular well- being, alertness, adaptability, and enjoyment.
That’s from very fresh new reading of results of internet searches, and to me was to be advised of large calorie numbers being good and not bad — great news. That news counters and seems to possibly overrule the outdated advice from decades previous, which had spread word-of-mouth the incorrect myth (to current advice and reports) that sugary drinks and foods would invalidly cause those numbers to convert to flabby fat.
Zero calorie sweeteners are suspected inconclusively to be related to a wide spectrum of differing bodily and mental health illnesses.
From reading quickly through introductory paragraphs to many reports on zero calorie sweeteners, I have noticed a variety pack of different types of illnesses, or of (possibly “actually”) zero calorie maladies mimicking the symptoms of various more understood and conventionally acting illnesses.
In standard listing: heart conditions, possibly skin conditions, some neurological or nervous system conditions, and also psychiatry mood disorders (or the mimicking of them — with actual zero calorie being the cause and differing profile to the illnesses) are mentioned in many articles I’ve skimmed through.
Zero Calorie sweeteners — more summaries of ideas
Future editions of this article are planned to cover a wider range of advice ideas on these topics.
