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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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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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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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
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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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In this case, as you state, the benefits are case-dependant. Benefits or neutral depending on your situation.
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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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Previous MAs that only used studies which compared sweeteners with sugar have shown benefits for weight loss and other things
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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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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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