How Sweet Is It?

Nutrition Facts with Dr. Greger

Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2017

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Artificial sweeteners may not have calories, but they do have side effects that many people don’t know about.
This episode features audio from Aspartame & the Brain, Does Diet Soda Increase Stroke Risk as Much as Regular Soda?, and The Healthiest Sweetener.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Nutrition Facts.
0:03.4	The podcast that brings you the latest
0:05.4	and evidence-based nutrition research.
0:08.5	I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.
0:11.3	I know that facts have been in the news a lot lately,
0:14.8	both real and fake.
0:17.9	The concept of alternative facts is nothing new
0:21.6	in the field of nutrition, though,
0:23.3	where powerful commercial interests have tried to not only
0:26.1	keep people in the dark, but actively try to confuse them.
0:31.5	That's why I stick to the science.
0:34.8	What's the best available balance of evidence published
0:37.0	in the peer-reviewed medical journals right now?
0:39.9	That's why I wrote my New York Times best-selling book,
0:42.8	How Not To Die, and why I created my non-profit site
0:46.1	NutritionFacts.org, and now this podcast.
0:51.5	How sweet it is, or should we say
0:55.7	how sweet is it?
0:58.4	Today, we take a close look at artificial sweeteners.
1:03.0	Recent research reveals that artificially sweeten beverages
1:06.4	may be associated with depression
1:08.6	or psychological disturbances.
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