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Studies lately are showing that artificial sweeteners are just as bad if not worse for you than sugar. Apparently aside from the nasty chemicals, they still tr
by joncrane 7y ago
Studies lately are showing that artificial sweeteners are just as bad if not worse for you than sugar.
Apparently aside from the nasty chemicals, they still trigger an insulin response which makes your blood glucose crash and makes you crave sweet, fatty foods.
- i_cannot_hack 7y agoI find that exceedingly hard to believe. Sources, please. And I don't want a single study concluding sweeteners might affect gut biome in rats or might provoke some insulin secretion. I want serious, reputable studies claiming sweeteners are worse than sugar, a substance arguably killing more people per year than tobacco. To provide some real data to the discussion, a study analysing 36000 deaths and 3 million person-years (published by the American Heart Association) found a 21% increase in all cause mortality among those consuming 2 or more sugar sweetened beverages per day. Consuming 2 or more artificially sweetened beverages, on the other hand, was associated with only a 4% increase. And moderate consumtion of artificially sweetened beverages (< 2 per day) was actually, unlike sugar, associated with decreased mortality. [1] The way sweeteners are discussed in relation to sugar is often fear-mongering and disconnected from reality. It's like equating a sewing needle to a gun because the needle might also theoretically be dangerous in some circumstances. [1] https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.118.037401 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA....