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If you read the full article instead of just the opening, you get to it: The prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease has, it’s worth noting, sharply increased
by soperj 9y ago
If you read the full article instead of just the opening, you get to it:
The prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease has, it’s worth noting, sharply increased in recent decades.
Then there are artificial sweeteners like sucralose and saccharin, which we consume in diet sodas and “sugar-free” snacks in hopes of cutting calories. Our bodies can’t directly digest most of them — they’re meant to pass right through — but it turns out that the microbes inhabiting our colons can metabolize the sweeteners, potentially to our detriment.
Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have found that, in mice, saccharin causes glucose intolerance, a marker of impending diabetes — and one disease that those who eat these sweeteners are probably trying to avoid. When the scientists transplanted microbes from mice fed saccharine to mice that hadn’t consumed the sweetener, the recipient animals developed glucose intolerance as well, suggesting that the microbiome that was warped by the sweetener, not the sweetener itself, was causing the problems.
- ravenstine 9y agoWhat diet soda contains saccharin? Also, that study only looks at saccharin. What about sucralose?
- amyjess 9y ago> What diet soda contains saccharin? The only one I can think of is Tab. I tried it once, and I couldn't finish a can.
- zenophobia 9y agoThe study investigates three non-caloric artificial sweeteners: saccharin, sucralose, and aspartame. "To determine the effects of NAS on glucose homeostasis, we addedcommercial formulations of saccharin, sucralose or aspartame to the drinking water of lean 10-week-old C57Bl/6 mice" "Notably, at week 11, the three mouse groups that consumed water, glucose and sucrose featured comparable glucose tolerance curves, whereas all three NAS-consuming mousegroups developed marked glucose intolerance (P , 0.001, Fig. 1a, b)." The article probably only talks about saccharin specifically because, as the study states: "...saccharin exerted the most pronounced effect, [so] we further studied its role as a prototype artificial sweetener."
- Gregordinary 9y agoBesides Tab, Diet Coke from a fountain contains saccharin: https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2008/04/17/Coca-Cola-wins-sweetener-legal-battle https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2008/04/17/Coca-Cola-w... (Trying to find another source, I believe Diet Pepsi from a fountain does as well, to extend shelf life.)
- therein 9y agoWow that blows my mind. No wonder soda from fountain tastes different, and I am not even talking about only the low-calorie ones. I thought it was merely due to some sort of imprecision in dispensing the concentrate.
- hinkley 9y agoSomeone tried to rekindle the 1970’s saccharin scare in the early 90’s and a bunch of sodas and gums switched to aspartame. Which may be worse for you...
- r00fus 9y agoPink Sweet & Low sweetener (saccharine) packets are in almost every coffee or brunch place I've ever been to.