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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Replying to @GidMK
what am I missing here? The criteria for selecting studies states amongst other things, "generally healthy adults or children..., and the intervention duration had to be at least seven days" This bar seems too low to even crawl under
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My bigger point is that if that is the standard we use to say things are alright, then the folks like us who want to dig into these food/diet pitches need to be even more wary
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That's the criteria for study selection, but the criteria for study grading use the GRADE criteria, which is very comprehensive https://training.cochrane.org/resource/grade-handbook …
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They make the selection bar low because you want to include as much evidence as possible, then grade it to give a weight to the recommendation So a study of 7 days is of very low quality, while a study of several years might be of much more use
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