Recently someone told me that some are really bad for your liver and in large amounts not healthier than large amounts of sugar.

I haven’t had time to look up their sources, but it was a professor at uni who told them. Do you have any insight that I might be lacking?

Now I am not interested in stuff like the bogus aspartam rat studies, those weren’t any good.

I mostly believe that most artificial sweeteners are not very unhealthy and thus miles better than sugars. So drinks or food sweetened with it should be good imo.

  • sexy_peach@feddit.deOP
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    2 years ago

    Thanks!!

    I have had several people tell me that artificial sweeteners are even worse for you because they raise blood sugars and cause diabetes… Why and how, come on people…

    I don’t know if I would consume artificial sweeteners if they were half as unhealthy as drinks sweetened with sugar, that’s still pretty bad ^^

    • Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.org
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      2 years ago

      do you know what also raises blood sugar and causes diabetes? added sugar

      ffs 😂

      Also there’s conflicting evidence on raising blood sugar and artificial sweeteners. One of the metastudies I linked mentions that it’s not fair to compare all added sweeteners in the same way because their mechanism of action is different. I believe we have ample evidence that some of them raise blood sugar in some individuals (genetics matters here, unsurprisingly) but the general effects that we see, even in the sugar substitutes which we have a bit of evidence for raising blood sugar is that it raises blood sugar a pretty small amount, magnitudes less than an equivalent serving of any added sugar.