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Common Sweeteners May Be Accelerating Puberty in Kids

by Shari Barbanel | July 23, 2025

Consuming certain sweeteners commonly found in foods and beverages may increase the risk of early puberty in children, particularly among those who are genetically predisposed, according to a study presented at ENDO 2025, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in San Francisco, CA. The researchers found that consuming aspartame, sucralose, glycyrrhizin and added sugars was significantly ...

Non-nutritive Sweeteners Affect Human Microbiomes and Can Alter Glycemic Responses

by Shari Barbanel | August 29, 2022

Since the late 1800s non-nutritive sweeteners have promised to deliver all the sweetness of sugar with none of the calories. They have long been believed to have no effect on the human body, but researchers challenge this notion by finding that these sugar substitutes are not inert, and, in fact, some can alter human consumers’ ...

The Effects of Five Different Sweeteners on Weight Gain/Loss

By Prof. Gene Bruno, MS, MHS, RH(AHG) Huntington University of Health Sciences The public and health care professionals alike have always had a love/hate relationship with low-calorie sweeteners—especially artificial sweeteners. Many like that fact that these sweeteners have no calories but dislike the fact that they are synthetic. I do understand the sentiment. This is ...

Artificial Sweeteners Have Toxic Effects on Gut Microbes

by Shari Barbanel | October 1, 2018

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved artificial sweeteners and sport supplements were found to be toxic to digestive gut microbes, according to a new paper published in Molecules by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Israel and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. The collaborative study indicated relative toxicity of six artificial sweeteners (aspartame, sucralose, ...

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