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