TAG: artificial sweeteners

Artificial Sweeteners Raise Your Risk of Diabetes by Altering Your Gut Microbiome

Dr. Mercola Waking Times Both artificial sweeteners and certain gut microbes have previously been linked to obesity, and according to the latest research, artificial sweeteners may raise your risk of diabetes by disrupting your intestinal microflora. According to the authors of the widely publicized study:1 “[W]e demonstrate that consumption of commonly used non-caloric artificial sweeteners

Advantame – A “New & Improved” Artificial Sweetener

Deane Alban, Guest Waking Times Artificial sweeteners have always been bad news for your brain. They are highly suspected of causing many serious brain health problems including memory loss, brain tumors, and Alzheimer’s. Ironically, they aren’t making us any thinner, either! The US Food & Drug Administration recently announced their approval of a new artificial

The Aspartame End Game… And What’s Next

Dr. Mercola Waking Times For the last 17 years, I’ve warned that artificial sweeteners can wreck your health. Aspartame is among the worst of the bunch, and in general, people who consume aspartame tend to be in poorer health. They also tend to develop more of a sweet tooth. I found the evidence against artificial sweeteners to

Sucralose’s (Splenda) Harms Vastly Underestimated: Baking Releases Dioxin

Sayer Ji, Green Med Info Waking Times A new, in-depth review on the synthetic sweetener sucralose (marketed as Splenda), published in the journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, is destined to overturn widely held misconceptions about the purported safety of this ubiquitous artificial sweetener. Found in tens of thousands of products and used by millions of consumers

Splenda (Sucralose) Found To Have Diabetes-Promoting Effects

Sayer Ji, Green Med Info Waking Times Promoted for decades as a “safe” sugar alternative, presumably to prevent or reduce symptoms of diabetes, Splenda (sucralose) has been found to have diabetes-promoting effects in human subjects. The artificial sweetener sucralose, which is approximately 600 times sweeter than sucrose (table sugar), and marketed under a variety of


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