• jballs@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    “This study showed that habitual, long-term intake of total and individual artificial sweetener intakes are related to greater volumes of adipose tissue, commonly known as body fat,” said Brian Steffen, PhD, MSCR, a professor in the Department of Surgery at the U of M Medical School and co-investigator on the funded grant. “This was found even after accounting for other factors, including how much a person eats or the quality of one’s diet.”

    That’s what makes this study so interesting.

    • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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      Interesting, but also suspicious. “How much a person eats and the quality of their diet” is pretty much the entirety of “calories in”, so if artificial sweeteners are sabotaging weight loss, it’ll be on the “calories out” end, which is where metabolism and exercise come into play… which is absolutely a part of the equation that can be influenced, but not the part that sweeteners are typically involved in.