Drinking or eating a lot of sucralose might be linked to a higher chance of heart problems — like 31% higher — based on a big study of French adults who were followed for about 9 years.

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Artificial sweeteners and risk of cardiovascular diseases in the prospective NutriNet-Santé cohort

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2022 Sep 7

The study looked at how much sucralose people drank or ate and found that those who consumed more had a higher chance of heart disease, exactly as the claim says.

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Artificial sweeteners and risk of cardiovascular diseases in the prospective NutriNet-Santé cohort

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DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2022-071204

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Eating a lot of sucralose (an artificial sweetener) over time might make your body less responsive to insulin and change the good bacteria in your gut, which could make it harder for your body to manage blood sugar.

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