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“Even though artificial sweeteners such as saccharin, cyclamate, aspartame, and sucralose have no calories, it is believed that their sweet taste stimulates hormonal release in the small intestine and therefore promotes insulin release. Insulin, in turn, makes us hungry, so that the actual aim of artificial sweeteners, which is to save calories, is negated. Additionally, artificial sweeteners confuse the brain. Your brain registers that it’s tasting something sweet and thus expects an increase in blood glucose. When that increase in blood glucose doesn’t happen, the brain isn’t satiated, setting in motion a vicious cycle that requires larger and larger amounts of sweet things. Studies have demonstrated that the increased use of artificial sweeteners could not reduce the disease rate for type 2 diabetes or obesity. On the contrary: Artificial sweeteners have fostered the obesity and diabetes epidemic.101”
― Andreas Michalsen, The Fasting Fix: Eat Smarter, Fast Better, Live Longer

“Today, people in many areas of the world have the means to eat whatever they want, whenever they want. At first glance this seems like a victory over the unpredictability of nature; a second glance, however, reveals that this is a major problem for the biology of the human body.”
― Andreas Michalsen, The Fasting Fix: Eat Smarter, Fast Better, Live Longer

“My life only happens because of your lives,”
― Eve Myonen Marko, The Book of Householder Koans: Waking Up in the Land of Attachments

“Food is many things: a physical requirement for life, culture, enjoyment. But it’s also a habit, and in some circumstances, it’s an addiction. It can affect our body in so many ways. If we know how to engage with food correctly, it is pure medicine and pleasure together—and thus the best way to lead a long and healthy life.”
― Andreas Michalsen, The Fasting Fix: Eat Smarter, Fast Better, Live Longer