At least your body has a long evolutionary history of dealing with sugar. Fake sugars, not so much.
Huge amounts of money are invested into developing these fake sweeteners. The FDA does some cursory studies on health effects, but the pressure is on to get it to market and the criteria is there be no significantly observable health effects within the period studied. This stuff has been on the market over 30 years and these effects are only now coming to light.
I have always been skeptical of this one in particular because it is a halogenated organic molecule and I first heard of it right around the same time as I was learning about how organo-halides are generally very bad for your health.
Fortunately, I don’t have much of a sweet tooth. Black coffee, no sodas. Dark chocolate cravings occur during hurricanes. I’ve never trusted fake sweeteners, or acetaminophen either.
I’ve lost 50 pounds in past six months on a diet in which I am never hungry.
1) Intermittent fasting. For me, 18 hr fast, 6 hrs eat. I’m working on eating one meal a day.
2) I eat all I want BUT less than 10 carbs. That means I eat a lot of meat and fat. As Dr Berry on YouTube says: Beet, butter, bacon and eggs. Yum. I never get hungry. Plus my A1C went from 5.8 down to 5.4. My doctor was so excited...called me up. Course I did not tell her the diet I was on - just that I was on low carb and fasting.
My psoriasis is gone. Stomach issues gone. Skin great condition. Hair shiny and thicker. Energy increased. Yes. Hard to believe, but true. I am 77 yo