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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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Coffee Lengthens, While Caffeine Shortens Your Telomeres: An Essential Paradox? The Latest Evidence Reviewed

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If life "begins with coffee", will it also help you end later with coffee? If you follow the SuppVersity on Facebook, you will be aware that the majority of studies indicates that the chronic consumption of coffee (even in amounts of 5+cups/day) has potent health benefits - at least in normal, healthy individuals. Accordingly, you may not consider the observation Larry Tucker (2017) made when he evaluated the relationship between caffeine intake and coffee consumption and leukocyte telomere length, in his latest study surprising. After all, a drink with overall beneficial effects on one's health, shouldn't have negative effects on our telomere length, a biomarker of the senescence of cells. You can learn more about coffee and caffeine at the SuppVersity For Caffeine, Timing Matters! 45 Min or More? Caffeine Helps When Taken Intra-Workout, too Coffee can Help You Get into Ketosis Caffeine's Effect on Testosterone, Estrogen & SHBG The Co...
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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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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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Four Weeks "On" Two Cans of Energy Drink = 6.6% Increase in Body Fat + Other "Adaptations" in Healthy Men & Women

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Contrary to regular coffee, the majority of energy drinks ensures that you get your daily (over-)dose of diabesity promoting sugar - so, no need for additional white poison. If you are following the SuppVersity news closely, I am sure you will remember the note on the carcinogenic, or rather "breast cancer risk increasing" effect a single cup of soda per week can have ( read more ). As a follower of the SuppVersity Facebook news , you will also remember that these effects could potentially be brought about by the hormonal chaos that's brought about by these sugar sweetened beverages ( learn more ; Schliep. 2013). Now, these results, as well as the accumulating evidence that sugar sweetened beverages in general and high fructose corn-syrup laden sodas are among the, if not simply the #1 contributer to the rise of the obesity pandemic, certainly raise the question what exactly it is that happens to us, when we consume these delicious* yet deadly elixirs on a daily bas...
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