Sweeteners in the Real World: 12% Increase in GLP-1 and Non-Significant Effects on Insulin W/ Diet Soda From Well-Known Brands and Seltzer + NNS Control - Implications?
Drinking diet soda now and then is certainly not going to harm you. Everyone knows that "[n]on-nutritive sweeteners (NNS), especially in form of diet soda, have been linked to metabolic derangements (e.g. obesity and diabetes) in epidemiologic studies" (Sylvetsky. 2016). What only SuppVersity readers know is that experimental evidence to prove that the associations between obesity and artificial sweetener consumption from epidemiological studies is not the result of reverse causation, i.e. obese / overweight individuals gravitating towards the consumption of non-nutritively sweetened drinks in the false belief that this alone would help them to lose weight does not exist. You can learn more about sweeteners at the SuppVersity Aspartame & Your Microbiome - Not a Problem? Will Artificial Sweeteners Spike Your Insulin? Sweetened Drinks Beat Water as Dieting Aid Chronic Sweeten-er Intake Won't Effect Microbiome Sucralose Tricks 'Ur Energy Gau...