I just published Artificial Sweeteners Aren’t Killing Us Allhttps://link.medium.com/ItmqnfbgiT
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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
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The study is here https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.k4718 …
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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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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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Part of the review was rating the studies with respect to industry bias and imo a big part of the reason that there isn't more evidence either way is because no industry has much incentive to fund it
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