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There is one artificial sweetener that
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has a kind of a crappy track record for
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weight gain and that's
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if we look at the things people care
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about that don't freaking matter in
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terms of diet.
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They fixate on weird buzzwords, but like
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sugar for example.
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There has been such scaremongering
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around sugar to the point that people
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don't delineate between added sugars to
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the diet versus sugar that is intrinsic
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or naturally occurring in foods.
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Things like fruit, fresh fruit and even
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milk has naturally occurring uh sugar in
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it. Lactose
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um can be problematic for um some of the
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population. But look at fresh fruit.
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I've actually heard people
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vilify fruit because it has sugar
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and
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it's one thing to take an idea and put
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out a a plausible claim. Okay, so yeah,
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it's got sugar and then you know we all
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know that if you add a ton of sugar to
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the diet, you lower the quality of the
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diet and then you can um push your bets
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towards negative health consequences
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down the line. Okay, that that's fine.
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That's reasonable. But
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even though fruit has sugar, it also has
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a ton of other beneficial components to
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it. And it's in this low calorie, high
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water, high micronutrient density
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package that is satiating and displaces
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stomach space for other wise junky foods
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that you may a lot of people would have
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consumed instead of that fruit. There's
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a lot of scaremongering around
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artificial sweeteners,
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but there is one artificial sweetener
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that has a kind of a crappy track record
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for both impairing glucose control and
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also weight gain. And that's saccharine.
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So saccharine is the one artificial
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sweetener that's kind of bombed out at
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the bomb shelter there as far as the
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literature is concerned. But the good
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news about saccharine,
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it's by the way, it's the little pink
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packet things,
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it's not really uh commercially
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pervasive.
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So it's not that popular anyway.
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No, it's almost commercially extinct. So
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um the other sweeteners like sucralose,
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aspartame, stevia, or some people call
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it stevia, um they're all fair game.
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They're all in the same boat. All pretty
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dang innocuous. And you'd have to
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consume
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impossible amounts of those things to
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incur negative health effects in in a
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lifetime really.
