Study: Artificial Sweeteners May Promote Diabetes: boston/health/2014/09/17/study-artificial-sweeteners-may-promote-diabetes/QkAu8v2D1D1VoWFYmyQcgP/story.html Its just a mouse study and would love to see human trials on this before the headlines get out there. But the study out of Israel published in the journal Nature shows the fake sweeteners alter the bacteria in the gut making the mice glucose intolerant which leads to Type 2 diabetes. Who knows if this happens in humans, but its something that underscores the need to examine these things much more closely since so many people are consuming them on a daily basis as a calorie-free (and, by extension, thinking they are healthy) alternative. Maybe they are, maybe theyre not. Lets study it in humans.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 16:04:31 +0000