Are Artificial Sweeteners Changing Our Gut Bacteria in Dangerous Ways?

[arydberg]

Is the following this true? If so have we been eating the wrong foods for the last 25 years or so?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/a...ay-change-our-gut-bacteria-in-dangerous-ways/

 

[Drakkith]

I would be extremely skeptical of this article. I'm too tired to read through the entire thing right now, but I did read about several of their studies and can say that they suffer from an extremely low sample size. One had a mere seven subjects. Seven. That's not enough to field a baseball team, let alone do proper research on.

 

[Ygggdrasil]

We recently discussed the topic of artificial sweeteners in the following thread:
https://www.physicsforums.com/threa...u-drink-only-coca-cola-or-soft-drinks.877475/
(see ~ post #7 onwards)

 

[Evo]

Is the following this true? If so have we been eating the wrong foods for the last 25 years or so?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/a...ay-change-our-gut-bacteria-in-dangerous-ways/

That study is the same one discussed in the thread Ygggdrasil linked to above. It's about saccharin. Thread closed.