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How to Change Your Opinion on Artificial Sweeteners
Sally Kohn: Artificial sweeteners are metabolically inert. She says they don't absorb a lot of the stuff and like aspartame you do absorb, but people don't realize it's such a small amount because it's 200 times sweeter than sugar. The latest studies in the gut microbiome show that some artificial sweeteners appear to alter the species of bacteria living on our bodies.