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Wellness: Fact or Fiction

Artificial Sweeteners

Wellness: Fact or Fiction
Wellness: Fact or Fiction
This week we cover off all things artificial (and natural) sweeteners. Lab created, naturally derived...is there a difference on our health outcomes?

This week Sal and Shauna cover:
  • Can sweeteners actually cause cancer?

  • Whether sweeteners impact gut health

  • Why too many make you crap your pants

  • If they can make you crave more sweet food

  • How sweeteners affect your appetite

  • Weather sweeteners are actually good for weight loss

  • Which sweeteners are beneficial for oral health

  • Two awesome new health hacks


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References:Effects of stevia, aspartame, and sucrose on food intake, satiety, and postprandial glucose and insulin levels
Replacing caloric beverages with water or diet beverages for weight loss in adults: main results of the Choose Healthy Options Consciously Everyday (CHOICE) randomized clinical trial
Marinovich M, Galli CL, Bosetti C, Gallus S, La Vecchia C. Aspartame, low-calorie sweeteners and disease: regulatory safety and epidemiological issues. Food and Chemical Toxicology 2013; 60:109-15. [PubMed Abstract]
Fueling the obesity epidemic? Artificially sweetened beverage use and long-term weight gain Low-Dose Stevia (Rebaudioside A) Consumption Perturbs Gut Microbiota and the Mesolimbic Dopamine Reward System
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