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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Jan 2019

      I just published Artificial Sweeteners Aren’t Killing Us Allhttps://link.medium.com/ItmqnfbgiT 

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Jan 2019

      My newest blog is on that Big New Study published by Cochrane that the headlines have been screaming about for the last week or sopic.twitter.com/bSMJtU2WSn

      2 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Jan 2019

      The study is here https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.k4718 …

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Jan 2019

      The study was done to inform WHO guidelines about the use of artificial sweeteners, particularly for kids It found that the current evidence does not demonstrate any harms, but that more research is needed to be sure

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    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Jan 2019

      The main message of this study is that there is currently no good-quality evidence hat artificial sweeteners help with weight loss or cause harms That's all

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    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Jan 2019

      The accompanying editorial in the BMJ is actually a great explainer of what this means and is cautiously optimistic about artificial sweeteners being helpful https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.k5005 …pic.twitter.com/OfnK4suVjV

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    7. Dr KayRay‏ @ktibus 7 Jan 2019
      Replying to @GidMK

      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

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    8. Dr KayRay‏ @ktibus 7 Jan 2019
      Replying to @ktibus @GidMK

      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.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    9. Dr KayRay‏ @ktibus 7 Jan 2019
      Replying to @ktibus @GidMK

      In this case, as you state, the benefits are case-dependant. Benefits or neutral depending on your situation.

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    10. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Jan 2019
      Replying to @ktibus

      Very likely. Part of the reason that this review found no benefit - as the BMJ editorial notes - is that they included studies that compared sweeteners to placebos in their meta-analysis as well as ones that compared with sugar

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Jan 2019
      Replying to @GidMK @ktibus

      Previous MAs that only used studies which compared sweeteners with sugar have shown benefits for weight loss and other things

      2:00 PM - 7 Jan 2019
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        2. Dr KayRay‏ @ktibus 7 Jan 2019
          Replying to @GidMK

          That's interesting. It shows the importance (and it's what we don't have) of reporters that 1) Read the research 2) Understand analysis. But it doesn't make for good headlines. It's either a) The perfect food that will give you super health b) certain death if you consume it

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        3. Dr KayRay‏ @ktibus 7 Jan 2019
          Replying to @ktibus @GidMK

          Nobody's interested in "Cheeseburgers aren't great for you, so if you don't eat them then don't, but if you eat a cheeseburger occasionally it isn't going to make any difference".

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