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The Case Against Saccharin: Weight Gain in 12-Wk Human Study Only W/ 1st Gen. Sweetener or Sucrose | Plus: Have You Noticed That Coke 'Secretly' Pulled it Only Recently?

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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...
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Putting the Artificial Sweetener Analysis into Context by Focusing on the Experimental Data in the Meta-Analysis

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If you seriously believe that Classic Coke was healthier than Diet Coke or Coke Zero, you cannot be helped, anyway. If you agree that's bullshit, you may want to read the rest of this article to learn what RCTs say about artificial sweeteners. If we disregard the "associations" in the notoriously unreliable observational studies and focus solely on the randomized trials that are involved in the latest meta-analysis of the health effects of artificial sweeteners, even the scientists' own conclusion doesn't support what the "press release copy+paste" articles at ScienceDaily & Co seem to suggest to the average reader who will ignore the important difference between association and causation and understand that artificial sweeteners cause "weight gain and increased risk of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease, ..." when he skims (often just parts of) articles like the one ScienceDaily published on July 17, 2017. You ...
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Anti-Microbial Effects of Artificial Sweeteners in Humans - 2/3rds of a Can of Diet Coke May Have a Sign. Effect on the Gut Microbiome, but the Relevance is Questionable

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2/3 of this can may suffice to make a difference. Whether this difference is (a) relevant or (b) irrelevant is yet as questionable as whether the changes the scientists observed will (i) have a negative (ii) a positive or (iii) no effect. As a SuppVersity  user you know that the whole craze about aspartam and sucralose is overblown. You will also know that any potential "pro-insulinogenic" effects occurred only in less than a handful of human studies. If they did, though, they occurred in response to the ingestion of artificial sweeteners and  glucose or other insulinogenic carbohydrate sources ( learn more ). Against that background it's also not surprising that in clinical trials vs. observational bogus, artificial sweeteners have been shown to help people with weight problems lose body fat ( learn more ). The one thing about the myth of the bad sweetener that has yet not been completely debunked, though, revolves around their negative effects on the human gut mic...
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Water or Diet Soda - What's the Better Diet Beverage? Study Confirms Fake Sweetness Promotes Weight & Waist Loss, Decreases Hunger, Blood Pressure, Cholesterol & Trigs

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There is one thing that's not debatable, compared to regular coke, diet coke is a diet beverage. I am probably repeating myself, when I tell you that there are still many people out there who don't understand that it makes a fundamental difference if you are looking at potential pro-obesogenic effect of non-nutritive sweeteners (NNS) in an energy restricted vs. ad-libitum diet scenario. In view of the discussions revolving around the last article on a similar matter, I still thought it was prudent to mention that something that could potentially increase the cravings for sweets is not going to make you fat, if you don't give in to the urges. Apropos urges, if you look at the abstract of the study I am about to discuss in today's SuppVersity article, you will realize that this effect does not existent. You can learn more about sweeteners at the SuppVersity Unsatiating Truth About Sweeteners? Will Artificial Sweeteners Spike Insulin? Sweeteners ...
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Sugar Sweetened Beverages & Total Energy Intake: Studies Suggest That Normal-, Overweight & Obese Women CAN Compensate for 168 Additional Sugar Calories Per Day

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Usually they are touted as the reason for weight gain: Sugar-containing soft drinks like the Scottish brew Irn Bru . In the study at hand, however, they helped 41 obese women lose weight - how come? Despite the fact that it is not the first of it's kind, I decided that the paper Roy Nelson sent me the a couple of days ago may still be worth being covered in a brief article. Marie Reid and her colleagues were after all able to show that we can, theoretically and without conscious effort, compensate for the additional energy intake from sugar-sweetened beverages. As I already mentioned, this is not the first study Reid and her colleagues from the Hull, Ulster and Herriot-Watt Universities in the UK conducted, but it is the first one where the subjects, obese women, with previous diet experience, came right from the subgroup of the population of whom we simply assume that their weight problems would (partly) result from these "empty calories". Would the women "r...
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