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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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Interesting: D-Allulose Promotes Fat Loss - Not Compared to Sugar, but Compared to Non-Caloric Sweeteners

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The reduction in belly fat was significant - in the absence of dieting and compared to another zero-calorie sweetener, that is. D-Allulose is one of those purported weight loss agents with an impressive research record from rodent studies. Now, a recent human trial suggests: it may work in overweight men and women, too. With it being one of the newer sugar substitutes, you may not be familiar with d-allulose (also called d-psicose ). So, here's the gist: It's the C-3 epimer of d-fructose, has (only) 70% of the sweetness of sucrose and ZERO calories (well, almost) ... ah, and did I say that it's rarely found in nature. You can learn more about sweeteners at the SuppVersity Aspartame & Your Microbiome - Not a Problem? Will Artificial Sweeteners Spike Your Insulin? Diet Soda Beats Water as Dieting Aid in RCT Chronic Sweeten-er Intake Won't Effect Microbiome Sucralose Tricks 'Ur Energy Gauge - Implications? Sweeteners In- crease Sweet- ...
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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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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?

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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...
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