Choosing blood sugar-friendly sweeteners is especially important for people with high blood sugar, such as people with ...

Not all artificial sweeteners are created equal. “One of my students was sipping on this sugar-free drink, and I said, ‘Why don’t you look into that?’” recalled senior study author Yihai ...

That said, artificial sweeteners including mannitol and sorbitol have been shown to cause GI issues like diarrhea. Whether this has any long-term adverse effects on gut health, though, is unknown.

But do artificial sweeteners actually help, or could they be doing us harm? We teamed up with Dr James Brown at Aston University to find out. Sweeteners such as saccharin, sucralose, aspartame and ...

Humans have a sugar sense. Animals and humans prefer sugar over artificial sweeteners in experiments, and that could be because a specific gut sensor cell triggers one of two separate neural pathways ...