The World Health Organization warns against industrial sweeteners: unsafe and does not lose weight

Artificial sweeteners used in many products as a substitute for white sugar do not help with weight loss and may, according to the World Health Organization, have dangerous health effects. The United Nations organization issued new recommendations on Monday and warned against the use of the SO -called artificial sweeteners. The World Health Organization said in a statement that a systematic overview of the available evidence “indicates that the use of artificial sweeteners has no long -term advantage to reduce the percentage of body fat in adults or children.” Similarly, the results of the review indicate “the possibility of unwanted consequences caused by the long -term use of artificial sweeteners, such as increasing the risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and causing deaths in adults.” Mixed concepts and consume millions of people daily, artificial sweeteners in products such as low calories, or sweeteners used in coffee, to avoid weight gain in sugar. However, the validity of these alternatives has long been the subject of controversy. The director of nutrition and food safety at the World Health Organization, Francesco Branka, emphasized that replacing ordinary sugar with artificial sweeteners “does not help to control the long -term weight.” He said in a statement: “People should use other methods to reduce their sugars, such as eating foods that contain natural sugars such as fruits, or unsweetened foods and drinks.” He added that “artificial sweeteners do not represent essential nutritional factors and have no nutritional value,” adds “people to the intake of sugar -like foods in their diet at an early stage of their lives to improve their health.” The organization emphasized that its new recommendation applies to everyone except for individuals with diabetes. She added that one of the most used sweeteners “Ascolvam Kai”, “aspartame”, “Sicon”, “Nimam”, “Sugar”, “Sugars” and “Stevia” is. At the same time, the health organization noted that its guidelines are considered conditional because it is still difficult to withdraw fixed conclusions as a result of the diversity of the participants and the complexity monitored in the use of artificial sweeteners in the studies in which the organization looked. Also read: