Hey, you always knew those artificial sweeteners were too good to be true.
Now, a groundbreaking study from Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science, published September 17 in Nature (J. Suez et al. Nature 2014), confirms your suspicion.
Artificial sweeteners, promoted as aids to weight loss and diabetes prevention, could actually hasten the development of glucose intolerance and metabolic disease, said Dr. Eran Elinav of the Weizmann’s Immunology Department, who oversaw the study with Prof. Eran Segal of the computer science and applied mathematics department.
In fact, their experiments in mice and humans found that the widespread use of artificial sweeteners in drinks and food may be contributing to the obesity and diabetes epidemic sweeping much of the world.
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