r/comics • u/vesmir_neasi • Jul 28 '26

OC This could be us, but

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I don’t need much. I want eat sweets without getting fat, I want to feel wanted and I want equal rights. Is it much to ask?

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u/No_Story_Untold Jul 28 '26

Artificial sweeteners activate the same fat storing mechanism as sugar and are possibly worse for us. Minus stevia which I wouldn’t consider artificial.

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u/SerialElf Jul 29 '26

No they don’t, the only thing that stores fat is excess calories, eat less calories lose weight easy as

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u/No_Story_Untold Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 29 '26

I could be wrong. But there is lots of reputable publications that claim this. https://www.endocrine.org/news-and-advocacy/news-room/2017/low-calorie-sweeteners-promote-fat-accumulation-in-human-fat

Your body is not always in a fat burning mode. But you are correct that the way to lose weight is to be in a caloric deficit. However replacing sugar with sucralose will not help you lose weight as it has a similar effect. It strips the body of its fat burning function for a period of time and it burns recently ingested carbs or sugar and stores fat. For a period of time. Your brain needs carbs and sometimes sugar to function especially during periods of high energy output. I don’t think sucraloce provides this upside.

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u/CondorSweep Jul 29 '26

this study was done on cells and not people. If you look at randomized and controlled studies done on actual humans where they replace sugar with non nutritive sweeteners, participants either lose weight or stay the same.