世卫组织:人工甜味剂无助于减肥,长期摄入或增加健康风险
China Daily
近日,世卫组织发布指南建议不要使用非糖甜味剂来控制体重。该组织称长期使用非糖甜味剂可能会产生潜在的不良影响。
有多少人对糖又爱又恨,希望有种神器能让自己尽享甜蜜的同时又不长肉。阿斯巴甜、三氯蔗糖等非糖甜味剂便成了众多甜食党减肥的“救命神器”。近日,世卫组织发布指南建议不要使用安赛蜜、阿斯巴甜、糖精等非糖甜味剂来控制体重。该组织称,这些非糖甜味剂的摄入会增加成年人患糖尿病,心血管疾病或死亡风险,并且对于减肥来说没有任何实质性的作用。
On Monday, the World Health Organization released new guidelines warning the public not to use non-sugar sweeteners for weight loss, revealing that it may actually do more harm to the body than good.5月15日,世界卫生组织最新发布的一份指南提醒公众,不要借助非糖甜味剂减肥,这一表态意味着非糖甜味剂对身体健康或弊大于利。
New findings showed that artificial sweeteners — like aspartame, a sugar substitute found in Diet Coke — don’t do much to reduce your waistline. In fact, long-term use of these fake sugars could even potentially increase the risk for Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and mortality in adults, WHO said.新的研究结果显示,添加在无糖可乐中的阿斯巴甜等人工甜味剂,对减肥没有任何效果。世卫组织称,长期使用非糖甜味剂可能增加成人患2型糖尿病、心血管疾病患病率和死亡的风险。
“Replacing free sugars with NSS (non-sugar sweeteners) does not help with weight control in the long term,” said Francesco Branca, WHO’s director of the department of nutrition for health and development, in a statement.世卫组织营养促进健康和发展司司长弗朗切斯科·布兰卡说:“从长远来看,用非糖甜味剂代替游离糖无助于控制体重。”
According to WHO, some of the most common non-sugar sweeteners include “acesulfame K, aspartame, advantame, cyclamates, neotame, saccharin, sucralose, stevia and stevia derivatives.”根据世卫组织,最常见的非糖甜味剂包括"安赛蜜、阿斯巴甜、安美、甜蜜素、纽甜、糖精、三氯蔗糖、甜菊和甜菊衍生物"。
Branca advised that people should instead try to focus on eating foods with natural sugar, like fruit.布兰卡建议人们主要摄入水果等含天然糖分的食物。
“People need to consider other ways to reduce free sugars intake, such as consuming food with naturally occurring sugars, like fruit, or unsweetened food and beverage,” he continued. “NSS (non-sugar sweeteners) are not essential dietary factors and have no nutritional value. People should reduce the sweetness of the diet altogether, starting early in life, to improve their health.”
“人们需要考虑其他方法来减少游离糖的摄入量,例如食用含有天然糖分的食物,如水果,或不加糖的食物和饮料,”他继续说道。 “NSS(非糖甜味剂)不是必需的饮食因素,也没有营养价值。人们应该从生命的早期开始完全减少饮食中的甜味,以改善他们的健康。”
WHO noted that these new guidelines are applicable to everyone except for those who have preexisting diabetes.世卫组织指出,该指南适用于除糖尿病患者以外的所有人。
The review was compiled through 283 studies, according to CNN, but some of them were observational, which means that they just show an association.
据CNN报道,这项审查是通过283项研究汇编而成的,但其中一些是观察性的,这意味着它们只是显示了一种关联。