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Are Artificial Sweeteners Really Bad For You?

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Is There a Laxitof Effect?

The upshot of all this is, well, maybe sugar is not so bad. There's a lot of places you can get sweetness that aren't necessarily gabe, bad for you. But then if you're super hipp with the science too, you might be in favour of what are called sweet tasting proteins. These are actually pretty cutting edge. From what i've seen. All of em come from plants that grow in the rain forest. And apparently some of em are quite sweet. They're looking into using those as an alternative to artificial sweeteners. If you want to know more, about those, you can tipe those words in the search bar at how stuff works com and im

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