I’ve been wary of artificial sweeteners for awhile. I steer clear of soft drinks to begin with as they’re empty calories. For a sugar substitute, I’ve found the natural stevia leaf extract to be petty good.
An aside from this article.
I used to be an avid Nutrasweet/fake sugar user until I began to have severe dizziness episodes that would wipe me out energy wise for hours and sometime days. I began to realize they happened during times that I was working on losing weight and restricting my calorie intake. Was it low blood sugar from not eating as much etc etc? No.
Eventually I realized it was ingesting these sweeteners that were causing it. I would ingest them and be down sometimes for days with dizzy episodes. Very scary actually the huge cause and effect by ingesting just a few swallows of something with it in it--not even a large amount. And I was very ill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglia_Ruskin_University
call me when they get a teaching hospital....Meh
Black tea, no sweetener. Water.
Stevia tastes like saccharine.
Whoa, that sounds bad. I’ve given up Diet Coke and Coke Zero.
So that’s been gone almost completely and absolutely since President Trump called for a response to Woke Coke.
I make a lot of good homemade plain English type iced tea these days, sometimes with lemon.
Rather than citing "3 common sweetners", it would have been more helpful for the article to explicitly specify the sweeteners in question.
The amount of bullhooey in this article is amazing. They really did an excellent job of utter nonsense and junk science. Bravo!
and Cher screams Rasis !!!!
My long ago suspicion of artificial sweeteners is a little like my doubts about the vax. I didn’t see any big benifit to drinking diet stuff and I’m always suspicious of the ‘something for nothing” idea.
It is true that I have an unexplained health problem that could conceivably be linked to high exposure to artificial sweeteners — but, OTOH — the pretty severe colitis I had as a young person was mysteriously cured about the time I started artificial sweeteners. Coincidence?
I could stand at one end of the latrine, bend over, and hit the toilet 20 feet away ...
Splenda today, Splenda yesterday, Splenda forever
I’ve been drinking saccharine in my iced tea since I was a kid. I’m 69 y.o. I’ve never been in favor of aspartame (nutrisweet). I have some splenda for baking, but I don’t use it often. I usually use sugar alcohols, and monk fruit powder. (BTW, I’m back on a keto diet, but I discovered that instead of the “less than 20 net carbs per day” rule that all the keto ‘blogs’ say is necessary to achieve ketosis, is inaccurate. It is no more than 50 net carbs per day, in order to achieve ketosis).
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/how-long-does-it-take-to-get-into-ketosis
https://www.mayoclinic.org/is-the-keto-diet-for-you-a-mayo-expert-weighs-in/art-20457595
If you want something sweet just freaking eat sugar! 🙄
It was Clinton that received a large donation to his ‘charitable’ organization to get aspartame approved. That nastiness nearly killed me.
Boy that article is the biggest buttload of bunkum and blather I have read in a long time.
These sweeteners have been in use for 25 to 40 years now. And yet, here we are, still alive.