Sucralose, Hazardous or Innocent? Part II: Appetite, Gut Health & Food Reward | Sucralose, Gluttony & Adiposity?
Plain mineral water is still the best thing to quench your thirst. Today we are going to continue our thorough, educated reading of the recently published overview over the biological issues with sucrolase, a "popular" artificial sweetener most of you will probably know by its brand name Splenda. The focus of part I of this series was on the potential pro-diabetic effects of this agent that belongs to a class of molecules that has originally been hailed as a solution to the diabetes problem (it goes without saying that I am talking about artificial sweeteners here, right?). In a way we are thus only continuing the discussion, when we are trying to verify Schiffman's & Rother's argument that the consumption of sucralose is associated with an increase in obesity risk... or, put more simply that using sucralose is going to make you fat, not lean. The good old "energy in" vs. "energy out" argument As SuppVersity readers you are well aware...
