How Come Artificial Sweeteners Are Making You Fat?

In my practice as a nutritionist and personal trainer, new clients are always coming to me telling me they are doing everything they are “supposed” to do, but still, they do not lose weight. Of course, this is highly frustrating. Losing weight is hard enough, and to change your eating habits and still see no results, that’s even more frustrating.

Why don't these people  lose weight? If I had to pick the most common reason why most people’s efforts have no results, I would say it is the deception of artificial sweeteners and processed diet foods. Yes, you heard right. It is the diet coke, diet snacks, processed foods and artificial sweetener in your food and drinks that are keeping you fat.
How is this so?

Artificial sweeteners overwhelm your liver!

Your liver is the largest internal organ, and it’s responsible for a massive variety of life-sustaining and health-promoting tasks, including those that make healthy weight loss and weight management possible. There are countless metabolic processes, the liver supports the digestive system, controls blood sugar and regulates fat storage. One of your liver’s most important functions, and the most crucial to your weight loss, is chemically breaking down everything that enters the body, from healthy vegetables, to not so healthy fast food, from clean water to not so healthy soda or coffee.

It’s your liver’s job to distinguish between the nutrients you need to absorb and the dangerous or unnecessary substances that must be filtered out of your bloodstream. But when the liver is overwhelmed with toxins, like artificial sweeteners, it can’t do a very effective job of processing nutrients and fats. If it can not process the nutrients and fats that your body needs, this will cause you to gain weight or will prevent you from losing weight.
Your liver also produces bile, a crucial substance for detoxifying your body. It is the job of the bile to help our bodies break down the fats we need and to assimilate fat-soluble vitamins. But when our bile becomes overly congested with the toxins it’s trying to filter out, it simply can’t function properly. It becomes thick and highly inefficient in breaking down fats. The result: You are more likely to gain weight and have a greater difficulty losing it. So the more toxic your body becomes, the more difficulty you’ll have losing weight and keeping it off because your liver just can not work properly to break down fat.  

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