Welcome to The Fitness Stuff for Normal People podcast. I'm Tony, as always here with my co-host,

Mary Anna. Now, it's no secret. The fitness industry sucks, whether it's the corrupt

multi-billion dollar supplement and weight loss industry or the endless supply of influencers

promoting absolutely anything to drive page views or put a dollar in their pockets. The bottom

line is we're not just trying to make another fitness podcast.

There's a hundred of those, but actually change the fitness industry for the better.

And we want to do that by providing you with the knowledge and tools to actually give you

the confidence to apply the best possible training, nutrition, supplementation, and habits

into your own life.

Where today we finally dedicate an entire episode to the monster that is artificial sweeteners.

Just kidding.

We're going to find out.

It's not really a monster.

But here's the thing.

There seems to always be two camps when it comes to this conversation.

One that is so far anti-artificial sweeteners, claiming they cost cancer, diabetes, heart attack, stroke,

weight gain, even CNN publishing an article titled Zero Calories Sweeteners linked to heart attack,

stroke, new study finds.

And the other group, which is on the complete other side, claiming that they don't have any

influence over any health outcomes at all.

And shocker is, whenever two groups exist in health or fitness, the answer lies somewhere in the middle.

And that's what we're trying to find out today, where we're talking about the different

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