{"id":1286,"date":"2016-11-21T11:56:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T19:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2016-11-21T11:56:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T19:56:45","slug":"why-sugar-free-foods-have-a-laxative-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/?p=1286","title":{"rendered":"Why Sugar-Free Foods Have a &#8216;Laxative Effect&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-offset-key=\"5r6nc-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8230;by Kristen McNutt, Phd., JD. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"5r6nc-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;Like fiber, sugar replacers are only slightly digested &#8211; or not at all. Therefore, the most low-digestible carbohydrate that is eaten is not absorbed. The body&#8217;s normal response to unabsorbed carbohydrates is simply to dilute them by pulling water across the intestine lining into the upper part of the intestine. When low-digestible carbohydrates move into the large intestine, most of that water moves back in the opposite direction. Depending on how much water flowed in and out, stools might be unchanged, soft or loose. This is why low-digestible carbohydrates are sometimes used to relieve constipation. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"5r6nc-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;Some bacteria that live in the large intestine can &#8220;eat&#8221; low digestible carbohydrates, and they use this type of carbohydrate for their own growth. After they have eaten, gases and short fatty acids remain. That&#8217;s why beans, fiber and other sources of low-digestible carbohydrates may cause an increase of gas. Recent research shows that some of the short fatty acids promote intestinal health. Furthermore,\u00a0low sugar replacers (isomalt and lactitol) have been found to stimulate the growth of &#8220;good&#8221; bacteria in the intestine. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"5r6nc-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;The possibility of loose stools and gas can be reduced by eating only small quanitites of low-digestible carbohydrates. Give your body some time to adjust to digesting these foods.&#8221; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5u8n\" spellcheck=\"false\" data-offset-key=\"5r6nc-1-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"5r6nc-1-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">#buckroth, &#8220;My Diabetic Soul &#8211; An Autobiography, ISBN-13: 978-0-9822030-9-5 AND (ebook) &#8211; 10: 0-9822030-8; 304 pages references; &gt; $15.95.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;by Kristen McNutt, Phd., JD. &#8220;Like fiber, sugar replacers are only slightly digested &#8211; or not at all. Therefore, the most low-digestible carbohydrate that is eaten is not absorbed. The body&#8217;s normal response to unabsorbed carbohydrates is simply to dilute &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/?p=1286\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}