Off topic – Proven again – artificial sweeteners actually make you GAIN weight

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Some highlights from the article

• Rats on same number of calorie diets were given sugar and artificial sweeteners

• The rats getting artificial sweeteners actually GAINED weight

• ‘’ chemicals (aspartame and saccharin), much like pesticides, may actually poison us into gaining weight’’

  • ‘’ you will find peer-reviewed and published research on our site linking aspartame to over 40 adverse health effects, including fibromyalgia, brain cancer, kidney damage, urinary tract cancer, leukemia and many other serious conditions.’’

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• Overview Obesity and Vitamin D

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• Effects of artificial sweeteners on body weight, food and drink intake. – Dec 2010
  • Rats gained weight on artificial sweeteners
  • These results question the effect of non-caloric artificial sweeteners on weight-maintenance or body weight decrease.
• Artificial sweeteners induce glucose intolerance by altering the gut microbiota Nature Sept 2014
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• Death By Diet Soda? New York Times Sept 2019

  • "26 percent more likely to die prematurely than those who rarely drank sugar-free beverages."

  • " JAMA Internal Medicine, followed 450,000 Europeans over 16 years"

• Artificial sweeteners--a recently recognized class of emerging environmental contaminants: a review July 2012

• Nonnutritive Sweeteners: Current Use and Health Perspectives A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association July 2012

• Non-nutritive Sweeteners: What Do They Offer to a Heart Healthy Diet? Press release from ANA – July 2012 includes the following message

  • '' Use of nonnutritive sweeteners does not in itself guarantee weight loss, but it is possible that judicious use of non-nutritive sweeteners within an awareness of overall caloric consumption can support weight loss efforts.’’
• Gain weight by "going diet?" Artificial sweeteners and the neurobiology of sugar cravings: Neuroscience 2010
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• Figure 1. Time line of artificial sweetener use and obesity trends in the United States.
  • Middle line: changes in the percentage of the population who are obese (BMI >30) from 1961 to 2006. Source: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey ^[57].
  • Bottom line: changes in the percentage of the population who are regular artificial sweetener users from 1965 to 2004. Source: National Household Survey ^[2].
  • Top line: changes in the number of new artificial sweetener containing food products introduced to the American market from 1999 to 2004. Source: Mintel Market Analysis ^[14].
  • Bars below the time axis indicates the type and availability of artificial sweeteners in the United States over time. Source: Kroger et al ^[9].