As women approach menopause, it is natural to gain weight. You can notice the belly area accumulates more fat; so many menopause women try their best to find sweeteners with fewer calories.
Unfortunately, artificial sweeteners make you gain weight. When researchers followed more than 1,000 people for 8 years, they found that on average, for each diet soft drink consumer per day, the chances of becoming overweight jumped about 37%.
Moreover, artificial sweeteners are dangerous too.
1. Don't add artificial sugars to hot coffee. Aspartame is an artificial sweetener. It has similar effects on the body as monosodium glutamate (MSG). Moreover, when liquid aspartame is heated to above 85 degrees, it breaks down into DKP and formaldehyde, both of them are toxins, and cause cancers, brain damage and more problems.
2. Artificial sugars make you chemically and physically addicted to them. Some studies have found: "fake" sugars increase the preference for sweets.
3. Diet sodas are loaded with artificial sugars. Since fall 1983, the FDA approves NutraSweet for carbonated soft drinks and other liquids. Many people complained horrible health issues, including depression, hypertension, dementia, nausea, sickness, headaches, migraines, dizziness, etc.
The good news is that those extra pounds you gain during peri-menopause will go away once you get past menopause.
Also, diets with high sugar and fat will increase hot flashes. Diets with low sugar and fat, as Asian women have, will reduce hot flashes.
So avoid artificial sweeteners and reduce sweeteners as much as you can during menopause. If you really like sweeteners, use sugar from natural sugar canes.
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