{"id":9608,"date":"2024-07-16T15:34:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T15:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=9608"},"modified":"2024-07-16T16:23:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T16:23:17","slug":"are-artificial-sweeteners-safer-than-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=9608","title":{"rendered":"Are Artificial Sweeteners Safer Than Sugar?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Health concerns have been mounting for decades. Here\u2019s what the research suggests.<\/p>\n

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When artificial sweeteners entered the U.S. market in the 1950s, food manufacturers made a big claim: That they could satisfy the American sweet tooth without the negative health effects \u2014 and calories \u2014 of sugar.<\/p>\n

Today, artificial sweeteners and other sugar substitutes have become ubiquitous in the food supply, showing up in a slew of products including diet sodas, sliced bread and low-sugar yogurts \u2014 not to mention your morning coffee.<\/p>\n

But questions about sugar substitutes have been swirling for decades, with scientists<\/a> and public health officials<\/a> suggesting they might come with certain health risks of their own.<\/p>\n

The research on how sugar substitutes affect our bodies is preliminary, complex and sometimes contradictory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThey haven\u2019t been studied as much as they should be in humans,\u201d said Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, a cardiologist and director of the Food is Medicine Institute at Tufts University.<\/p>\n

That leaves us with many questions about how to weigh their potential benefits and risks. Here\u2019s what we know.<\/p>\n

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Health concerns have been mounting for decades. Here\u2019s what the research suggests.When artificial sweeteners entered the U.S. market in the 1950s, food manufacturers made a big claim: That they could satisfy the American sweet tooth without the negative health effects \u2014 and calories \u2014 of sugar.Today, artificial sweeteners and other sugar substitutes have become ubiquitous in the food supply, showing up in a slew of products including diet sodas, sliced bread and low-sugar yogurts \u2014 not to mention your morning coffee.But questions about sugar substitutes have been swirling for decades, with scientists and public health officials suggesting they might come with certain health risks of their own.The research on how sugar substitutes affect our bodies is preliminary, complex and sometimes contradictory.\u201cThey haven\u2019t been studied as much as they should be in humans,\u201d said Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, a cardiologist and director of the Food is Medicine Institute at Tufts University.That leaves us with many questions about how to weigh their potential benefits and risks. Here\u2019s what we know.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9610,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9611,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608\/revisions\/9611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}