Diabetics need to monitor their food consumption carefully to ensure that sugary snacks and simple carbohydrates do not create dangerous swings in their blood glucose levels.Some types of artificial sweeteners can allow diabetics to enjoy an occasional sweet treat without concern for its impact on blood glucose levels, but other artificial sweeteners create unpredictable glucose results. Over-reliance on artificial sweeteners can have many bad health effects, including leading to unhealthy eating patterns.

Sugar Alcohols

糖醇是含有约一半卡糖的甜味醇。The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized food manufacturers to label foods containing sugar alcohols as sugar-free or no-sugar-added. This means people with diabetes cannot rely on the sugar-free label to ensure that the food product will not contain sugar. Read the food ingredients label carefully to ascertain if it contains erythritol, isomalt, lactitol, xylitol or other sugar alcohols. Sugar alcohols will affect blood glucose, but the extent of the impact varies from product to product, according to the National Diabetes Association3。含有糖醇的小吃也经常含有精制的面粉碳水化合物，并且在卡路里含量高，并且即使与无糖标签也可能是糖尿病饮食的健康补充。

Overeating

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Artificial sweeteners can interfere with the body's natural ability to judge when to stop eating, according to researchers at Purdue University2。Evolution has taught humans that sweet foods are high in calories, so when the tongue tastes sweetness, the body gears up for an intake of high-calorie fuel. If the calories do not arrive along with the artificially sweetened product, then digestive mechanisms trigger the urge to seek those calories elsewhere. This leads to unhealthy overeating and weight gain that creates serious negative health effects for diabetics and non-diabetics alike.

Sweet Cravings

Artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, saccharin and sucralose are many times sweeter than ordinary table sugar, according to MayoClinic.com1。这些类型的人造甜味剂几乎没有卡路里，并且被计算为糖尿病替代饮食的“免费食品”。定期吃作人为甜味的产品可以扭曲味蕾，以渴望品尝更甜的食物，导致舌头，以认为新鲜水果或蜂蜜燕麦面包为平淡无奇。人为甜味的商品通常是营养贫乏，潜在的含有脂肪和其他无恶心的品质。Mayoclinic.com建议，糖尿病患者和非糖尿病患者也应该适度消费人工加糖的食物，努力努力健康饮食，蔬菜和全谷物，Mayoclinic.com推荐。

Acceptable Daily Limits

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Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved five non-nutritive artificial sweeteners as human food additives in the United States, concerns over potential negative health effects of these synthetic sweeteners led the FDA to set acceptable daily limits for the consumption of each of these.阿斯巴甜应限于每天50毫克，不应用于烹饪。糖精和蔗糖素应该是有限的e 5 mg per day; acesulfame K to no more than 15 mg per day; and neotame to no more than 18 mg per day. Diabetics who rely extensively on artificially sweetened beverages and food products may exceed these acceptable daily limits and consume artificial sweeteners at levels that have not been deemed safe.