{"id":3114,"date":"2026-07-01T20:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=3114"},"modified":"2026-07-01T20:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:37:25","slug":"sugar-substitutes-may-not-be-much-better-than-the-real-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=3114","title":{"rendered":"Sugar substitutes may not be much better than the real thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>KEY POINTS<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Tufts University study analyzed 21 randomized clinical trials examining long-term effects of non-nutritive sweeteners.<\/li>\n<li>Low-calorie sweeteners alter gut microbiota composition and function, raising health concerns.<\/li>\n<li>Researchers recommend caution and further study before assuming sugar substitutes are safe alternatives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A study published Thursday in Current Atherosclerosis Report suggested sugar substitutes may be harmful in different ways than the substance they\u2019re replacing.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=3112\">Opinion: Communities will come together for America\u2019s potluck<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to American Chemical Society, the first artificial sweetener, saccharin, was discovered in 1879. Since then, many sugar substitutes have been developed and commercialized to mimic the taste of sugar, minus the calories.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers from Tufts University aimed to look at the long-term effects of these non-nutritive sweeteners, and reported that what they found \u201craises concern.\u201d <\/p>\n<h3>A study that stands out<\/h3>\n<p>The team analyzed 21 randomized clinical trials to see how participants\u2019 bodies reacted to both artificial and natural low-calorie sweeteners. The examples given of artificial sweeteners included sucralose, aspartame and saccharin, while the natural sweeteners mentioned were stevia and erythritol. The study indicated there were other unspecified sweeteners as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat makes our analysis notable is that by focusing on non-caloric comparators, we better isolated the direct physiological effects of the sweeteners themselves, not the calories they replace,\u201d Meng Wang, the first author in the study and a research assistant professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, said in an article from TuftsNow. The study identified those non-caloric comparators as water and a placebo. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=3110\">This American could help eliminate the U.S. from the World Cup on Wednesday<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Not-so-sweet discoveries<\/h3>\n<p>The researchers found that \u201ccertain low-calorie sweeteners were shown to alter both the composition and the function of the gut microbiota,\u201d according to the news release. <\/p>\n<p>It also said, \u201cConsuming non-nutritive sweeteners is linked to a higher risk of developing cardiometabolic diseases\u201d because of the trend between higher non-nutritive sweetener consumption and worsened insulin sensitivity. <\/p>\n<p>The researchers concluded non-nutritive sweeteners\u2019 impact on metabolic health \u201cremains unclear and controversial.\u201d The observations \u201care particularly subject to reverse causation,\u201d since people who already have higher metabolic risk may be the ones using non-nutritive sweeteners, per the report. Whether these substitutes cause metabolic risk or metabolic risk leads to the use of low-calorie sweeteners is hard to determine.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the consensus was that more research should be done. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil we know more, caution is needed. If you\u2019re replacing large amounts of added sugar in your diet, such as in multiple servings of soda, these low-calorie sweeteners may be a better alternative. But we can\u2019t simply assume they are safe and innocuous, and avoiding them whenever possible appears a prudent choice,\u201d Dariush Mozaffarian, study senior author, cardiologist and director of the Food is Medicine Institute, said in the TuftsNow piece. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=3108\">Borrowing policy overhaul: What major modifications to federal student loans are taking effect July 1<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What this study says about how non-nutritive substitutes affect the body<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sugar substitutes may not be much better than the real thing - 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