Diet soft drinks (gi)

Leitner

Basic question, what's the gi of diet soft drinks. I'm guessing low as they use an artificial sweetner as opposed to sugar, but can't find accurate details anywhere by googling, just a few suggestions that this is true.

saltiness

gi? wat

japan

Glycemic Index.

I don't think they have one, as such. Looking at the nutritional info for diet coke, it doesn't seem to contain a meaningful quantity of carbohydrate.

EDIT: Possibly some useful info here

corcorigan

A diet drink is basically going to contain nothing useful for your body (except water). That's the point. Your body can taste aspartame as sweet, but cannot use it as it would a sugar.

Serpent

most diet drinks won't have a GI, since they have zero calories. They should produce absolutely no insulin response.

Weretaco

Serpent wrote: »

most diet drinks won't have a GI, since they have zero calories. They should produce absolutely no insulin response.

I was listening to an interview on the radio the other day and they were saying that they had done some study that basically showed that the artificial sweeteners actually fool your body into thinking you've ingested sugar. This makes the body release insulin even though it's not needed.

isaac17

Weretaco wrote: »

Serpent wrote: »

most diet drinks won't have a GI, since they have zero calories. They should produce absolutely no insulin response.

I was listening to an interview on the radio the other day and they were saying that they had done some study that basically showed that the artificial sweeteners actually fool your body into thinking you've ingested sugar. This makes the body release insulin even though it's not needed.

Woah. Woah. That's messed up, and good to know. Now i have to see if that's true...

Durandal Infinity

isaac17 wrote: »

Weretaco wrote: »

Serpent wrote: »

most diet drinks won't have a GI, since they have zero calories. They should produce absolutely no insulin response.

I was listening to an interview on the radio the other day and they were saying that they had done some study that basically showed that the artificial sweeteners actually fool your body into thinking you've ingested sugar. This makes the body release insulin even though it's not needed.

Woah. Woah. That's messed up, and good to know. Now i have to see if that's true...

It is not. It was a scare that came out but if that was true there would be millions of dead diabetics

BetelguesePDX

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17397982?ordinalpos=39&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

While I could not find any studies that directly measured insulin levels after intake of artificial sweeteners, the above study found that in the long term use of artificial sweeteners in diabetics caused an 'adequate, prolonged reduction in weight'.

Since Insulin causes weight gain, one can infer from the above that artificial sweeteners do not raise Insulin levels.

Yes, very shaky science up there but I could find nothing more concrete.

Durandal Infinity

BetelguesePDX wrote: »

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17397982?ordinalpos=39&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

While I could not find any studies that directly measured insulin levels after intake of artificial sweeteners, the above study found that in the long term use of artificial sweeteners in diabetics caused an 'adequate, prolonged reduction in weight'.

Since Insulin causes weight gain, one can infer from the above that artificial sweeteners do not raise Insulin levels.

Yes, very shaky science up there but I could find nothing more concrete.

Weight loss is probably being more contributed to calorie free drinks that have caffeine. Caffeine is a very good thermogenic