On 3/02/2015 8:33 AM, sf wrote:
>
> After reading this on Time.com
>
> If you haven’t already, you may want to reconsider your diet soda
> habit—especially if you’re trying to lose weight. A much-buzzed-about

I reconsidered it way back when diet sodas first hit the scene. Looked
at what was in them and said to myself - no way! I did the same thing
many years prior when artificial sweeteners first hit the scene. My
mother was into using "sucaryl tablets" in tea and coffee as a
sweetener. I figured that if I had to put up with that foul taste in
order to sweeten my drink, I'd be better off to learn to live without
sugar sweetened rinks in the first place. I've been both sugar and
artificial sweetener free since the late 60s, IIRC. Whatever nasties I
get, I can safely say it's not attributed to sugar or artificial sweeteners


> study published in the journal Nature found that non-caloric
> sweeteners such as saccharin (Sweet-n-Low), sucralose (Splenda), and
> aspartame (Equal) may mess with the gut bacteria that play a key role
> in healthy metabolism. Researchers found a link between these
> sweeteners, altered gut microbes, glucose intolerance and metabolic
> syndrome (both precursors to Type 2 diabetes) in mice and humans.
>
> I followed the link to this. It's nothing new, but worth repeating.
> http://www.health.com/health/gallery...ow-away-012615
>


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