The brain-glycemic-indexing-cephalic-response

[Delt King]

Dr Ann de Wees Allan is the chief of bio-medical research at the glycemic research institute and the director of sports science at Human Sports Performance Labs. She says her research indicates that drinking diet drinks can in fact impede fat loss and can lead to fat gain. She postures that ingesting diet soda that contain no calories, fat ot carbs sends a message to the brain to immediately send out insulin which instigates major diabetic and fat storing hormones and generates lipoprotein lipase (LPL), which is known in chemistry as the gatekeeper for fat storage in the fat cells. Stimulation of LPL will keep you from cutting up because it stimulates adipose tissue body fat storage.

This is interesting news for me as i've always used lots of diet soda and artificially sweetened things all day in my precontest diets. Does the research really affect the practical application...this remains to be seen.

She's got a four hour video on it that was shown on clear channel and Fox news.
I'll be checking into this more. Her link is...http://www.anndeweesallen.com/Newscast.htm

[JifeLacket]

There are a few different steps for insulin secretion. Breakdown of 'carbs' starts in the mouth, so I would think that these artificial sweeteners would indeed have some sort of action on insulin secretion. Probably a very small effect... If they really did have a drastic effect on insulin, I think more people would be going hypo in a diet (or in general) providing there is a large insulin release and no carbs to back it. I'm also sure some of the artificial sweeteners will affect insulin differently, some more then others.

[cog]

I have previously noted a connection between fatties and the "Giant Gulp".Bet others did too.

[Praetorian]

Hogwash!!!
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[Delt King]

Hogwash!!!
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I was thinking the same thing based solely on experience...but there has to be something scientific about it to put this information out there. maybe the insulin release is very minimal and she blew the whole thing out of proportion in order to get in the limelight a bit.

[MuSuLPhReAk]

Listened to the first hour. Going to give the others a shot when I get more time. Haven't formed an opinion yet as I don't know enough.

[Praetorian]

Hundreds of clients that drink diet soda and get down to single digit BF levels...the problem is drinking something that tastes good stimulates hunger so people go binge after drinking a diet soda...its not the soda thats the problem its the two large pizzas they just scarfed down.
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