I just published Artificial Sweeteners Aren’t Killing Us Allhttps://link.medium.com/ItmqnfbgiT
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Having said all of that, the review did find that the evidence suggests quite a few positive things about artificial sweeteners:pic.twitter.com/SAzid9O257
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In particular, there seems to be no good evidence that artificial sweeteners cause increased hunger, food consumption, or sweet cravings This flies in the face of a very common trope, and yet it was not reported at all!pic.twitter.com/agUPrrTSTB
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Ultimately, there seems to be decent evidence that artificial sweeteners can help people lose weight IF: 1. They replace sugar 2. People are overweight to begin with
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So if you are, like 20yo me, an overweight person who drinks 1+ litres of sugary beverages a day, artificial sweeteners are probably great! Conversely, if you're like 29yo me, a less overweight person who drinks virtually no sugar, they probably aren't that helpful
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The blog goes into more detail, enjoy Thanks
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It's almost but not quite like the arguments around vaping, but illustrates something very important: context dependant risk analysis. With artificial sweeteners it probably doesn't matter, but vaping is a great example. Vaping is great if someone is a smoker and 1/2
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2/2 they replace it with vaping. Does this mean it is safe? We don't know, and early evidence suggests probably not, so if you don't smoke don't start vaping. But these subtleties are ignored by the media and vaping fans.
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