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People concerned about their weight often turn to artificially sweetened products for a no- or low-calorie sweet fix, but does the strategy really help with weight management? During the first two months of the study, the team instructed the adult participants to follow a low-calorie diet aimed at helping them lose at least 5% of their weight. They told the children participants to maintain their weight.with less than 10% of calories coming from foods and drinks with added sugar, which couldn’t include products with artificial sweeteners. The other group followed the same eating plan, but they were allowed to consume artificially sweetened products.
“The use of low-calorie sweeteners in weight management has been questioned, in part because of the link between their use and apparent weight gain in observational studies," co-author, head of the University of Leeds’s School of Psychology and president of the European Association for the Study of Obesity, said in the statement. “However, increasingly it is becoming apparent that is not the case in long-term studies.
Experts interviewed agree that, at this point, the benefits of sugar substitutes outweigh any potential downside.
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