Researchers at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) develop a project to determine whether the use of artificial sugars could bring negative side effects in people who are not diabetic.
In this regard, the project owner and researcher at this university, Patricia Ramos Morales, said the project came from seeing that it is increasingly common for people, especially young people without diabetes, artificial sugars consumed to stay thin.
The expert of the Laboratory of Genetics, Faculty of Sciences of the UNAM, said that in the case of a patient with diabetes sugar substitutes (also known as sweeteners) and sucralose or aspartame, help glucose control, without however, these alternatives are accompanied by a lesser amount of calories.
Sugar is an energy source of quick and easy assimilation necessary for the body, mainly for brain, muscles and nervous system.
One of the objectives of the project, said Ramos Morales, was whether these sweeteners came to present some toxicity in the body when consumed for long periods, as well as they affect energy functions.
For this we use the "vinegar fly" that serves as an indicator, because it eats some foods similar to those consumed by humans, said the bank also responsible Flies UNAM.
"The first step was fed with sugar substitutes to the insect during its larval stage (which simulates the early childhood of humans) and once they were developed living beings subjected them to tests in which they had to expend energy.
"The results we had is that 90 percent of the larvae survived to adulthood, however, exercise testing to spend energy, their ability to respond to signals from the environment is not the same as a well-fed flies. "
The specialist said that such projects help to know if the products are designed for a patient with diabetes may also be useful for the general public and also to develop alternatives that may be beneficial for both.
"There is a very wide range of studies on diabetes and how to understand, but one thing that is often left out is how to reach the diabetic patient with food alternatives that may give a better quality of life."
Morales Ramos said he has paid little attention to whether a product hits the market for the diabetic patient may also be available to the general public, ie, not having a side effect.
The researcher mentioned that currently in the second stage of the project working with flies that have genes for diabetes. "Our goal is to develop an increasingly accurate model and go in the future to make a proposal for humans," he concluded.
In this regard, the project owner and researcher at this university, Patricia Ramos Morales, said the project came from seeing that it is increasingly common for people, especially young people without diabetes, artificial sugars consumed to stay thin.
The expert of the Laboratory of Genetics, Faculty of Sciences of the UNAM, said that in the case of a patient with diabetes sugar substitutes (also known as sweeteners) and sucralose or aspartame, help glucose control, without however, these alternatives are accompanied by a lesser amount of calories.
Sugar is an energy source of quick and easy assimilation necessary for the body, mainly for brain, muscles and nervous system.
One of the objectives of the project, said Ramos Morales, was whether these sweeteners came to present some toxicity in the body when consumed for long periods, as well as they affect energy functions.
For this we use the "vinegar fly" that serves as an indicator, because it eats some foods similar to those consumed by humans, said the bank also responsible Flies UNAM.
"The first step was fed with sugar substitutes to the insect during its larval stage (which simulates the early childhood of humans) and once they were developed living beings subjected them to tests in which they had to expend energy.
"The results we had is that 90 percent of the larvae survived to adulthood, however, exercise testing to spend energy, their ability to respond to signals from the environment is not the same as a well-fed flies. "
The specialist said that such projects help to know if the products are designed for a patient with diabetes may also be useful for the general public and also to develop alternatives that may be beneficial for both.
"There is a very wide range of studies on diabetes and how to understand, but one thing that is often left out is how to reach the diabetic patient with food alternatives that may give a better quality of life."
Morales Ramos said he has paid little attention to whether a product hits the market for the diabetic patient may also be available to the general public, ie, not having a side effect.
The researcher mentioned that currently in the second stage of the project working with flies that have genes for diabetes. "Our goal is to develop an increasingly accurate model and go in the future to make a proposal for humans," he concluded.
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