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I had to change both, article and thumbnail repeatedly. Initially, I realized that the EU coke ZERO formula contained saccharin, while the US version didn't, then I checked on the official website and found (a) 'Zero' is no longer officially sold in Germany and the follow-up "Zero Sugar" doesn't contain saccharin in the US & EU 😲 If you follow the SuppVersity  and/or myself on Facebook, you will have seen my link to an interview with the author of the "artificial sweeteners" <> "stroke" study that made the headlines lately. In the interview, the lead author puts his results into perspective; a step that's absolutely missing from 99% of the press coverage ... worth reading, but unlike the study Tal Ben Moshe shared on the ISSN Facebook yesterday, not a new intervention study in living human beings - one that taught me several lessons in the history and spectrum of coke's sweetener compositions. You can learn mor...

Should you freak out about a small increase in body weight in a small-scale rodent study that is attributed to the consumption of saccharin in yogurt? While epidemiological studies show that the consumption of products containing non-nutritive sweeteners (NNS) is associated with increased adiposity (Colditz. 1990; Fowler. 2008), type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease (Dhingra. 2007; Lutsey, Steffen. 2008). A mechanistic link between aspartame, sucralose, stevia & co and weight gain as well as its ill metabolic and cardiovascular consequences in humans is non-existent  ( learn more ). Rather than weight increases controlled human studies show that the consumption of artificially sweetened foods promote, not hinder the loss of body fat  (Sørensen. 2014). You can learn more about sweeteners at the SuppVersity Aspartame & Your Microbiome - Not a Problem? Will Artificial Sweeteners Spike Insulin? Sweeteners & ...

Implications for diet coke? None! While I have deliberately ignored all previous studies discussing potential detrimental effects of saccharin on human health based on super-dose animal models, the one at hand is worth mentioning, because the dosage used is way below the RDA of 0.44mg/kg. But let's tackle one thing after another. In contrast to the myths about aspartame which are still  totally unfounded, the rumors about ill effects of saccharin on kidney and liver metabolism have been concrete enough for all the major players to pull saccharin from their products (see Table 1 ). You can learn more about sweeteners at the SuppVersity Unsatiating Truth About Artif. Sweeteners? Will Artificial Sweeteners Spike Insulin? Sweeteners & the Gut Microbiome Each is Diff. Sweeter Than Your Tongue Allows! Stevia, the Healthy Sweetener? Sweeteners In- crease Sweet- ness Threshold In fact, Tab, a diet cola soft drink introduced in 1963 and was created by Coc...

Would having your coffee with splenda instead of sugar make this cookie even more hazardous for your glucose metabolism and what about your waistline? If you've listened to yesterday's installment of the science Round-Up your are probably already in the know of the most important facts about the "pro-insulinogenic" effects of sucralose and how it is (a) neither sure what exactly is causing this increase in post-prandial insulin release, nor (b) whether this is the "bad thing" conventional wisdom would dictate it is. If you've also read the corresponding press release from the Washington University in St. Louis , I've linked in yesterday's Facebook post on the matter, you will know that even the authors of the study are not yet sure about the real world implications of their results: "The elevated insulin response could be a good thing, she pointed out, because it shows the person is able to make enough insulin to deal with spiki...