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Study links artificial sweeteners and weight gain
- DrScump 9y agoKinda sloppy reporting. It's a meta-review (looking at past studies, no new data); only 7 of 37 were controlled trials. Paper is here: http://www.cmaj.ca/content/189/28/E929.full#T3 http://www.cmaj.ca/content/189/28/E929.full#T3 It looks like a slapdash grep for sweetener names as search terms; it doesn't distinguish one from another or see how many (or even which) artificial sweeteners were studied. It's also disappointing that they didn't study the effect of AS on the microbiome, which is where I suspect the real mechanism of action lies.