3 Artificial Sweetener Myths You Need to Stop Believing

Diet soda isn’t making you fat.

Is Splenda causing your gut bacteria to die?

Do you think your afternoon caffeine shot from a can of diet coke is making you gain weight?

I was skeptical about drinking diet soda until 2017. Whenever I reached for a a can of diet Coke or a sugar-free Red Bull, I was warned by well-intentioned folks that I should avoid diet drinks and foods containing artificial sweeteners.

“They are bad for you.”

But why?

One of three reasons was always given as an answer. “They’ll make you fat” and “they can cause cancer” were two of the most common. The other reason given is that it affects your gut bacteria, which is a more recent trend. Many people have been talking about how diet beverages and artificial sweeteners are harming our gut bacteria since the beginning of the last decade.

I’ll admit that in my desperation to eat healthy and lose weight, I bought into these prevalent myths. However, after doing some research and gaining more nutrition knowledge, I discovered that these artificial sweetener misconceptions are not supported by scientific evidence.

Are artificial sweeteners a good source of nutrients and healthy for us? Certainly not. They can, however, play a significant role in weight management without the negative consequences that are commonly associated with them.

Let’s take a look at three common myths about artificial sweeteners.

If you Google artificial sweeteners and gut bacteria, you’ll find a whole slew of articles suggesting that they can wreak havoc on our gut flora. They say that our gut bacteria can develop a biofilm that can harm our stomach lining.

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