There was interesting research in the news last week, showing preliminary evidence that artificial sweeteners - at least some of them, and at least in high amounts, could have an effect on our gut flora that may even contribute to glucose intolerance in some people. As I said, this is very far from proved, but it does make me want to urge people to try to get away from eating too much in the way of sweet foods. There is also evidence that sweet foods may "hook" our brains, making us want more.
That said, I don't think this means that we should never eat anything sweet. I do think it does mean that weaning ourselves away from lots of sweet foods as a regular feature of our diets is a wise move, for many reasons. I've found that most manufactured sweet foods taste way too sweet to me now, and it doesn't take all that long to retrain our taste buds.
Moral: Use sweeteners sparingly and wisely. Laura
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