Well, this is a treat.

This is unusual, isn't it?

It really is unusual.

It's been a while since we've podcasted.

Yeah, it's been a long time.

And the reason that we are doing this is because something came up in the news and we

thought it was newsworthy.

And a lot of people were upset about it too, so we really wanted to lay people's fears.

Right.

So what is this amazing, crazy thing that happened?

What is it?

Well, there's an artificial sweetener called Arithritol that's commonly used in all kinds

of cowo controlled weight loss diets, not just keto, but weight watches and just many

diet that involves caloric restriction, suggests replacing sugars with artificial sweeteners,

non-nutrientive sweetness.

And the phrase artificial sweetener tends to raise people's hackles a bit, just to get

people comfortable with the whole thing.

This particular artificial sweetener, it's a sugar alcohol called Arithritol, we make

it in every cell in our body as part of our normal mechanism of processing glucose.

So it's not abnormal.

I think one of the reasons why people have such an averse reaction to that term is because

I remember in the 70s, when saccharin was everywhere, and it was determined to be cancer

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