The Shocking Truth About Artificial Sweeteners
Food, We Need To Talk
Juna Gjata
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Sugar is often among the first things people ditch in the New Year, and the most common replacement? Artificial sweeteners. But what if replacing sugar with its calorie-free counterpart is actually doing more harm than good? For this episode, we speak to Dr. Jotham Suez, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Johns Hopkins University, all about artificial sweeteners. How do they work? What are the metabolic effects of artificial sweeteners vs. sugar on our bodies? How do these sugar alternatives potentially negatively affect our microbiome, blood sugar control, and even cause weight gain? Turns out artificial sweeteners might not be so sweet after all.
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| 0:00.0 | Happy New Year's guys, one of our favorite times of the year over here at Food. |
| 0:06.3 | We need to talk. |
| 0:07.3 | Yes, happy New Year. |
| 0:08.3 | You know, last year, do you remember when we did our first ever New Year's Resolution series? |
| 0:13.6 | Yes, of course. |
| 0:15.2 | Every week we covered a different popular New Year's resolution. |
| 0:18.7 | We covered sugar. |
| 0:20.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:21.1 | Alcohol. |
| 0:22.1 | Halfeen. And you guys said, I love it. |
| 0:24.6 | I think you were referring to the sugar, the caffeine, and the alcohol, but also to the |
| 0:29.2 | episodes that we did. So this year we are going to be covering four more of the most popular resolutions |
| 0:35.0 | since you guys loved that series so much. Now can you guess what the most commonly |
| 0:39.3 | made New Year's resolution is? I'm gonna go with losing some weight. Okay, that's what I thought too, because it was always my top resolution, but it turns out it's actually to exercise more. |
| 0:50.0 | Yay! |
| 0:51.0 | I know. |
| 0:52.0 | So I was like, okay, we've done so many full episodes on exercise like what more can we say so we |
| 0:56.4 | decided to try something a little bit different this is a bit of a throwback because |
| 1:00.1 | Eddie has done something at this before but we have never done it together. |
| 1:04.2 | And that is daily episodes, okay? |
| 1:06.9 | So over on our membership, we're going to do five minutes a day, little episodes talking |
| 1:11.6 | all about exercise to do a 30 day challenge to get you to your exercise habit. |
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