Everything you never wanted to know about artificial sweeteners
Your diet soda might just be worse than a regular one.
By Sara Chodosh April 18, 2018
Everyone organizes their sugar packets, right?
There are a lot of myths about artificial sweeteners. The main one is that they’re actually better for you than regular sugar. Low-calorie sweeteners have been around for decades now, and we’re finally at a point where we’ve studied them enough to understand roughly how they work and what effect they have on our bodies.
A new study presented at the 2018 Experimental Biology meeting has re-raised all these issues and also re-confirmed what researchers have been thinking for years: artificial sweeteners might actually cause obesity, not prevent it.
https://www.popsci.com/artificial-sweeteners-vs-sugar
