People in the U.S. who use low-calorie sweeteners tend to eat about 6 fewer teaspoons of added sugar each day than people who don’t use them.

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No Association between Low-Calorie Sweetener (LCS) Use and Overall Cancer Risk in the Nationally Representative Database in the US: Analyses of NHANES 1988–2018 Data and 2019 Public-Use Linked Mortality Files

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2022 Nov 22

The study looks at people who use low-calorie sweeteners and finds they tend to have healthier diets, which fits with them using these sweeteners instead of sugar.

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No Association between Low-Calorie Sweetener (LCS) Use and Overall Cancer Risk in the Nationally Representative Database in the US: Analyses of NHANES 1988–2018 Data and 2019 Public-Use Linked Mortality Files

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DOI: 10.3390/nu14234957

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People in the U.S. who use low-calorie sweeteners tend to have higher weight, are more likely to be obese, and report more diabetes — even though they say they eat healthier and consume less sugar.

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People in the U.S. who use low-calorie sweeteners tend to have more education and earn more money, according to a large government health survey that tracked adults from 1988 to 2018.

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If you swap sugar for artificial sweeteners, you’ll eat less sugar—by a lot—but if you drink water instead, you get the same low sugar intake, so the sweeteners don’t help any more than water does.

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People in the U.S. who use low-calorie sweeteners tend to smoke less and eat a healthier diet compared to those who don’t, even when accounting for differences in income, education, and background.

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When people eat or drink things with low-calorie sweeteners like they normally do, studies show it doesn’t hurt their health.

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