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Re:Diet soda may prompt food cravings, especially in women a... by davidcbc on Thursday October 07, 2021 @03:56PM (#28791298)
Not for aspartame, which is the primary sweetener used in diet sodas

> So far, only saccharin and sucralose (NNSs) and stevia (NS) change the composition of the gut microbiota.

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Re:Diet soda may prompt food cravings, especially in women a... by matthewdgreen on Thursday October 07, 2021 @04:51PM (#28791880)
The results are all over the place. Some articles says continuous low-dose aspartame has effects [1], others say that aspartame has other effects on quorum sensing [2]. I'm not in this area so I can't judge any of this work, I just think it's interesting.

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... [2] https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/22/18/9863

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Re:Diet soda may prompt food cravings, especially in women a... by perl4ever on Thursday October 07, 2021 @06:04PM (#28792677)
People talk a lot about stevia, and it's prominently displayed on packaging, but then when I look at the ingredients, the sweetener is actually mostly sugar alcohols.

Is stevia ever used alone? If it's just a "fig leaf" so to speak, then perhaps the health effects of the sugar alcohols would be more relevant.

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