Common low-calorie sweetener may be riskier for the heart than sugar, study suggests
Common low-calorie sweetener may be riskier for the heart than sugar, study suggests
A small trial from the Cleveland Clinic is the first head-to-head analysis of how erythritol affects cardiovascular risks compared with sugar.
A small trial from the Cleveland Clinic is the first head-to-head analysis of how erythritol affects cardiovascular risks compared with sugar.
Archived version: https://archive.ph/5yESq
n=20. This is wayyyy too small a study to draw conclusions beyond "more research required".
35If you were actually versed in statistics and designing scientific studies, you would know that is a perfectly acceptable sample size.
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TLDR: it’s erythritol.
22I hate artificial sweeteners. They taste worse than suger.
Some people can just drink a glass of normal, no diet, soda once in a while. Rather have some sugar containing soda once every 4-5 days. Some people can moderate.
7Nice try, Big Sugar!
5ngl if artificial sweeteners also turn out to be bad for you, i'll just cut out the last bit of sugar-free sodas i still drink and switch to water. No way am I going to go back to sodas with sugar.
2There’s always seltzer!
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Something has to be wrong with artificial sweeteners based on how they taste
4lol. Diabetes is worse.
4I have a fairly healthy diet, with little risk of diabetes, but sweeteners screw my digestion up. They are now in so many things that it’s hard to avoid them, especially in soft drinks and mixers. For the rest of the world that doesn’t eat an American diet, the balance of the risk presented by sugar vs diabetes is not as one-sided as all that
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