02/15/2019
Sweeteners don’t cause cancer or weight gain based on the consensus of the evidence 🙅🏻♂️
Artificial sweeteners are given a bad rep due to some myths that have been fabricated about them 🙄
Some have proposed that sweeteners “trick your body into gaining weight by acting as a fake sugar”, induce hunger or cause cancer 😫
In this meta-analysis by Toews et al. (2019) it was shown that people who consumed sweeteners did not weigh more than those that didn’t 👍
They also showed that artificial sweeteners did not increase hunger or energy intake 🥙
Additionally, artificial sweeteners were not found to cause various forms of cancer 🧬
Three myths busted in this awesome paper: sweeteners do not cause weight gain when calories are equated, they do not cause you to be hungrier and do not cause cancer 😊
Reference: Toews et al. (2019). Association between intake of non-sugar sweeteners and health outcomes: Systematic review and meta-analyses of randomised and non-randomised controlled trials and observational studies. Bmj (clinical Research Ed.), 364, 4718.
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