Welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. You are very welcome to the podcast. My name is Danny Lennon.

Alongside me today is Alan Flanagan and Neve Aspel. And today we're going to be talking all about artificial sweeteners and

cancer risk, specifically through the lens of a recently published study. And so this comes off

the back of a question that was sent into us from one of our

Sigma Nutrition Premium subscribers. So if you are a premium subscriber, you can leave a question in

the AMA section of the members area. And that will either be covered in one of our AMA episodes,

or it might serve as the basis for a full podcast episode,

as is the case today, because this particular question is a big enough one that would

probably be worth covering in a full episode. And so this question came in from Zachary,

and he asked, what are your thoughts on this recent publication?

Adjustment model, follow-up time, contrast and exposure, etc., all appeared sufficient.

And the study that Zachary links to is one that has actually caused quite a considerable

stir online in various news outlets, on social media, etc.

And many people have pointed to this.

Many of you listening may have came across it.

And it's a study looking at artificial sweetener intake and cancer risk off the basis

of the NutriNet Sante cohort study out of France.

So this particular paper was published in PLOS Medicine in March of 2022.

As I just mentioned, it got reported across the media, all types of media sites that

typically report on the findings of studies.

And as you may suggest, as is a common thing, unfortunately, that you will have came across

and that we probably mentioned before, is that unfortunately, when the media gets hold of certain

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