Diet sodas and insulin??? - JP Fitness Forums

bushDocda · 09-02-2005, 10:15 AM

Considering that we want to control insulin throughout the day and then spike it PWO to shuttle nutrients to our muscles for recovery, and that we use many non-sugar sugars to do this that are now used in diet sodas, wouldn’t drinking diet soda throughout the day continually raise insulin at times not ideal nor following workouts and thus having an adverse impact on body composition.

Sorry for the long sentence

I was thinking this the other day when I had a soda for the first time in a while (well the first one in awhile without the jack daniels) and it was really good, it was a diet mountain dew and man it was good.

Is this a no brainer or completely wrong?

RipStone · 09-02-2005, 10:18 AM

I dont understand your question. Diet soda does not have sugar in it so why would it splike insulin? Regular soda though would spike insulin and be detrimental to body composititon.

bushDocda · 09-02-2005, 10:23 AM

Diet soda has sweetners like splenda which is just malto/dextro just like we use to spike insulin PWO, right?

Lost Dog · 09-02-2005, 10:40 AM

Splenda is sucralose, which is a no calorie sweetener.

Splenda for cooking and granulated Splenda DOES contain some malto and dextrose, for volume and as something for the sucrolose to cling to. Granulated uses a trivial amount.

There is one variety that is 50/50 sugar and Splenda. It's a special one for baking, though.

RipStone · 09-02-2005, 01:18 PM

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Originally posted by Lost_Dog:
Splenda is sucralose, which is a no calorie sweetener.

Splenda for cooking and granulated Splenda DOES contain some malto and dextrose, for volume and as something for the sucrolose to cling to. Granulated uses a trivial amount.

There is one variety that is 50/50 sugar and Splenda. It's a special one for baking, though.

Yea, but I can tell you that even know there is a little malto in splenda, it doesnt spike insulin. How do I know you ask? Well I am a type-1 diabetic who uses splenda and I do not have to take any insulin to cover for splenda use. Also, my blood sugars so not spike from splenda use.