My son asked me about artificial sweeteners and their effect on us. This is what I sent him.
There are hundreds of studies. Here I will comment on a handful.
Note that sweeteners go by many names. Sometimes by the actual name of one of the substances, like sucralose (see the wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucralos… ) or saccharin (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacchari…), and sometimes by generic names like nonnutritive sweetener (NNS) or artificial sweetener (AS), or similar. They are called nonnutritive because the body cannot extract any nutritional value from them, only sweet taste. And they are called artificial because most often they are a product of a laboratory-induced chemical modification of an otherwise natural substance. For example, sucralose is formed by the chlorination of sucrose: adding chloride to sugar (and then testing on animals that such a modificati
... Show more...My son asked me about artificial sweeteners and their effect on us. This is what I sent him.
There are hundreds of studies. Here I will comment on a handful.
Note that sweeteners go by many names. Sometimes by the actual name of one of the substances, like sucralose (see the wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucralos… ) or saccharin (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacchari…), and sometimes by generic names like nonnutritive sweetener (NNS) or artificial sweetener (AS), or similar. They are called nonnutritive because the body cannot extract any nutritional value from them, only sweet taste. And they are called artificial because most often they are a product of a laboratory-induced chemical modification of an otherwise natural substance. For example, sucralose is formed by the chlorination of sucrose: adding chloride to sugar (and then testing on animals that such a modification is not poisonous).
In 2009:
"Nonnutritive sweetener consumption in humans: effects on appetite and food intake and their putative mechanisms"
Mattes and Popkin, 2009
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/…
sciencedirect.com/science/arti…
"The addition of NNS [nonnutritive sweeteners] to diets poses no benefit for weight loss or reduced weight gain without energy restriction. There are long-standing and recent concerns that inclusion of NNS in the diet promotes energy intake and contributes to obesity."
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Nonnutritive sweeteners (NNS) are ecologically novel chemosensory signaling compounds that influence ingestive processes and behavior. Only about 15% of the US population aged >2 y ingest NNS, but the incidence is increasing. These sweeteners have ..
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
