The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Artificial sweeteners are not bad for you. I'm not going to say that. What I am going to say, is that whether or not you ingest them alone, or you ingest them in combination with food, or as part of foods that raise blood glucose, is vitally important for your insulin management.
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If you ingest an artificial sweetener, say, drink diet soda while consuming foods that increase blood glucose, then later, even if you just drink the diet soda, it's been shown that you secrete much more insulin, the hormone that regulates blood glucose, in response to that diet soda.
Because what these studies show, and I will provide references for these, is that they can vastly disrupt blood sugar management by way of the insulin glucose system, okay?