Open AccessEffect of artificial sweeteners on insulin resistance among type-2 diabetes mellitus patients
Author(s) -
Kushagra Mathur,
Rajat Kumar Agrawal,
Shailesh Nagpure,
Deepali Deshpande
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_329_19
Subject(s) - medicine , insulin resistance , type 2 diabetes mellitus , diabetes mellitus , insulin , artificial sweetener , ingestion , endocrinology , food science , sugar , chemistry
Incidence of diabetes mellitus has increased over the past few years, mainly due to our eating habits and physical inactivity. This also includes the use of artificial sweetening agents which have broadly replaced other forms of sugars and have shown a paradoxical, negative effect on blood glucose. Ingestion of these artificial sweeteners (AS) results in the release of insulin from pancreas which is mistaken for glucose (due to their sweet taste). This increases the levels of insulin in blood eventually leading to decreased receptor activity due to insulin resistance.