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Academic article on artificial sugar
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Can anyone access the actual article on this
Eloi Chazelas, Charlotte Debras, Bernard Srour, Léopold K. Fezeu, Chantal Julia, Serge Hercberg, Mélanie Deschasaux, Mathilde Touvier. Sugary Drinks, Artificially-Sweetened Beverages, and Cardiovascular Disease in the NutriNet-Santé Cohort. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2020; 76 (18): 2175 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2020.08.075
Though I see it's a letter, not an actual article...
Eloi Chazelas, Charlotte Debras, Bernard Srour, Léopold K. Fezeu, Chantal Julia, Serge Hercberg, Mélanie Deschasaux, Mathilde Touvier. Sugary Drinks, Artificially-Sweetened Beverages, and Cardiovascular Disease in the NutriNet-Santé Cohort. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2020; 76 (18): 2175 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2020.08.075
Though I see it's a letter, not an actual article...
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The doit didn't work for me but the title brought me to Google Scholar with a PDF download.
Only a super short abstract.
If you're looking for the full study and you're alum at a post-secondary institution, then check in with the librarian. They may be able to get you free access to the full version (assuming there's a cost attached)3 -
Thanks. From my research, I think that's it lol. It's made headlines the last few days and I prefer to read the actual article, not the media hype.
So many questions!
I suspect that the reason is that people compensated, like they didn't just swap the sugary drink for the artificial sweetened version, but also added something extra because of the feel good factor of swapping. So it's not the artificial sweetener causing the issues, but the surrounding food choices. Sadly as this isn't actually a full article, there is no way to know.2 -
Obv I haven't read the article but my experience with artificial sweeteners is that they mess with my taste buds or flavor preferences. Back in the day when I ate a lot of really sweet things (whether sugared or artificially sweetened) my flavor preferences were not happy unless I had really sweet things. I HAD to have it.
When I quit eating that stuff on a regular basis my entire taste preferences changed. Now a bowl of blueberries tastes so sweet. A carrot or potato - I can taste the sweetness.
I believe eating really sweet things (regardless of whether it's artificial) just leads to eating sweet things and craving sweet things. Life for me is much easier and I eat a far more balanced plan in general when I don't have those cravings and when the sweetest thing I might eat all day is a banana.5 -
I can see a slightly longer abstract. Both sugary and artificially sweetened drinks have similar risk of disease. I don't think they have data on everything the subjects eat (over 100,000 subjects over 10 years). They suggest the explanation of "metabolic effects through gut micro-biota perturbation and body weight gain", but they cannot assess causality.
Edit: You could just email the corresponding author and ask for the study. It's worth a shot.1 -
If you want an academic paper you ask on twitter with the hashtag #icanhaspdf giving the paper name, hopefully someone replies. After you get it you delete all tweets which is why there are so few tweets with that hashtag.2
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cmriverside wrote: »Obv I haven't read the article but my experience with artificial sweeteners is that they mess with my taste buds or flavor preferences. Back in the day when I ate a lot of really sweet things (whether sugared or artificially sweetened) my flavor preferences were not happy unless I had really sweet things. I HAD to have it.
When I quit eating that stuff on a regular basis my entire taste preferences changed. Now a bowl of blueberries tastes so sweet. A carrot or potato - I can taste the sweetness.
I believe eating really sweet things (regardless of whether it's artificial) just leads to eating sweet things and craving sweet things. Life for me is much easier and I eat a far more balanced plan in general when I don't have those cravings and when the sweetest thing I might eat all day is a banana.
People differ, I'm sure, but this isn't my experience. For most of my life I've rarely eaten sweet things and certainly don't crave them -- when I was getting fat I rarely had any dessert or sweet snack type food -- but for large parts of those times I drank diet soda pretty regularly. (For a period of time when losing I had ice cream after dinner about 3 times a week, 200 cals or so, and then I wasn't drinking diet soda and it didn't affect what I wanted otherwise, but since then I've lost my sweet tooth mostly and rarely have dessert.)
I drink diet soda now occasionally, but generally otherwise prefer savory foods to sweet and don't normally have sweet foods at all. (I've had lots of leftover Halloween candy since last Halloween and it hasn't crossed my mind to eat it, as that type of sweets doesn't appeal to me, and I generally don't think to buy dessert type foods when ordering from the grocery store.)
Sweet foods taste sweet to me, whether or not I drink diet soda, and always have. I've always enjoyed fruits and found them sweet, and also enjoyed veg.0 -
I usually have a cup of coffee or tea with Splenda each day, as well as a diet soda. Fruit still tastes incredibly sweet to me (I had some grapes with lunch, for example, and they were almost too sweet) and I have no trouble picking up the sweetness in foods like carrots. I only crave candy rarely and I'd almost always rather spend my calories on savory foods rather than dessert.
I think this is one of those things that could be important for an individual, but isn't a general rule.3 -
cmriverside wrote: »Obv I haven't read the article but my experience with artificial sweeteners is that they mess with my taste buds or flavor preferences. Back in the day when I ate a lot of really sweet things (whether sugared or artificially sweetened) my flavor preferences were not happy unless I had really sweet things. I HAD to have it.
When I quit eating that stuff on a regular basis my entire taste preferences changed. Now a bowl of blueberries tastes so sweet. A carrot or potato - I can taste the sweetness.
I believe eating really sweet things (regardless of whether it's artificial) just leads to eating sweet things and craving sweet things. Life for me is much easier and I eat a far more balanced plan in general when I don't have those cravings and when the sweetest thing I might eat all day is a banana.
Well this is a lovely anecdote, if you actually read the article, it is looking at cardiovascular disease and if it is related to sugary drinks. They found those who drink artificially sweetened drinks were as likely to get CVD as someone who drinks beverages sweetened with sugar, compared with those who didn't drink either.
It's an interesting finding, but I suspect there is more to the story. I'd want to know the average weight of people in each group for example.
But it doesn't look like this is a proper article, it's simply a letter with an abstract atm. Hopefully the full article comes out.
PS my anecdote, I have no problem eating sweet things and keeping my cravings under control. I love sugary food. Its my kick. I eat chocolate every day and have a diet Coke almost every day. I have lost 45lb and kept it off for 3 years.
See anecdotes are fun!3 -
If you want an academic paper you ask on twitter with the hashtag #icanhaspdf giving the paper name, hopefully someone replies. After you get it you delete all tweets which is why there are so few tweets with that hashtag.
Not to get on a high horse or soapbox (mainly because there is some acknowledged debate on this topic, sometimes by the writer themselves) but this can be considered a copyright infringement/violation.
I'd tread lightly with this approach.4 -
cmriverside wrote: »Obv I haven't read the article but my experience with artificial sweeteners is that they mess with my taste buds or flavor preferences. Back in the day when I ate a lot of really sweet things (whether sugared or artificially sweetened) my flavor preferences were not happy unless I had really sweet things. I HAD to have it.
When I quit eating that stuff on a regular basis my entire taste preferences changed. Now a bowl of blueberries tastes so sweet. A carrot or potato - I can taste the sweetness.
I believe eating really sweet things (regardless of whether it's artificial) just leads to eating sweet things and craving sweet things. Life for me is much easier and I eat a far more balanced plan in general when I don't have those cravings and when the sweetest thing I might eat all day is a banana.
Well this is a lovely anecdote, if you actually read the article, it is looking at cardiovascular disease and if it is related to sugary drinks. They found those who drink artificially sweetened drinks were as likely to get CVD as someone who drinks beverages sweetened with sugar, compared with those who didn't drink either.
It's an interesting finding, but I suspect there is more to the story. I'd want to know the average weight of people in each group for example.
But it doesn't look like this is a proper article, it's simply a letter with an abstract atm. Hopefully the full article comes out.
PS my anecdote, I have no problem eating sweet things and keeping my cravings under control. I love sugary food. Its my kick. I eat chocolate every day and have a diet Coke almost every day. I have lost 45lb and kept it off for 3 years.
See anecdotes are fun!
My point was....- Eating some sweet things leads me to want to eat more sweet things.
- Sugar(s) in general lead to higher levels of inflammation.
- Higher inflammation is related to all kinds of health issues, not the least of which is CVD.
Therefore, if I'm being encouraged by my sweet taste preference to eat higher amounts of sugar in general, my inflammation level will be higher than had I chosen not to...
Since you don't link the article, no way to know if the patients had higher weight or anything at all about this "study" so I was using your already vague premise to make my point which is vaguely related.
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My problem with artificial sweeteners is that ever since I had a frightful case of Covid-19 (back in February! ) artificial sweeteners taste metallic, they leave me with a burning sensation in my mouth, and they leave a funky feeling on my tongue, like the gritty "fuzz" on figs or peaches, but stronger.6
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If you want an academic paper you ask on twitter with the hashtag #icanhaspdf giving the paper name, hopefully someone replies. After you get it you delete all tweets which is why there are so few tweets with that hashtag.
Not to get on a high horse or soapbox (mainly because there is some acknowledged debate on this topic, sometimes by the writer themselves) but this can be considered a copyright infringement/violation.
I'd tread lightly with this approach.
Yeah there is a good reason why they keep deleting the requests. Not going down that path.2 -
cmriverside wrote: »cmriverside wrote: »Obv I haven't read the article but my experience with artificial sweeteners is that they mess with my taste buds or flavor preferences. Back in the day when I ate a lot of really sweet things (whether sugared or artificially sweetened) my flavor preferences were not happy unless I had really sweet things. I HAD to have it.
When I quit eating that stuff on a regular basis my entire taste preferences changed. Now a bowl of blueberries tastes so sweet. A carrot or potato - I can taste the sweetness.
I believe eating really sweet things (regardless of whether it's artificial) just leads to eating sweet things and craving sweet things. Life for me is much easier and I eat a far more balanced plan in general when I don't have those cravings and when the sweetest thing I might eat all day is a banana.
Well this is a lovely anecdote, if you actually read the article, it is looking at cardiovascular disease and if it is related to sugary drinks. They found those who drink artificially sweetened drinks were as likely to get CVD as someone who drinks beverages sweetened with sugar, compared with those who didn't drink either.
It's an interesting finding, but I suspect there is more to the story. I'd want to know the average weight of people in each group for example.
But it doesn't look like this is a proper article, it's simply a letter with an abstract atm. Hopefully the full article comes out.
PS my anecdote, I have no problem eating sweet things and keeping my cravings under control. I love sugary food. Its my kick. I eat chocolate every day and have a diet Coke almost every day. I have lost 45lb and kept it off for 3 years.
See anecdotes are fun!
My point was....- Eating some sweet things leads me to want to eat more sweet things.
- Sugar(s) in general lead to higher levels of inflammation.
- Higher inflammation is related to all kinds of health issues, not the least of which is CVD.
Therefore, if I'm being encouraged by my sweet taste preference to eat higher amounts of sugar in general, my inflammation level will be higher than had I chosen not to...
Since you don't link the article, no way to know if the patients had higher weight or anything at all about this "study" so I was using your already vague premise to make my point which is vaguely related.
Since you didn't bother actually reading my OP, and just read the post title, and I know this because my post is actually asking if anyone has access to the original article, your entire point is, well kinda pointless and I'm not even sure what you are commenting for. You stormed in here, based on the title giving anecdotal evidence about sugar creating more sugar cravings (it doesn't. I mean it might for you, but you are n=1. That is not evidence. For many many other people, myself included, sugar does not lead to eating more sugar). Then continue to talk about sugar causing inflammation, which may have a base of truth but isn't the whole story. Here is a meta analysis and systemic review (1) that states "The limited evidence available to date does not support the hypothesis that dietary fructose, as found alone or in HFCS, contributes more to subclinical inflammation than other dietary sugars". An important note in this sentence is that the word "sugars" relates to all carbohydrates, which break down to sugars. So when you are talking about sugar, you need to clarify if you mean added sugar vs sugar(carbohydrates) in general. That bowl of blueberries you mentioned, guess what, loads of sugar.
That said I should thank you, because researching your assertions (not watching YouTube but reading and analysing an actual scientific article) uncovered this statement "Due to the fact that the quality of meta-evidence as assessed by NutriGrade was low, the studies were heterogeneous in nature, and only a portion of the studies were able to be quantitatively assessed by the meta-analysis, an additional narrative review may provide further insights not captured by the meta-analysis". Which refers to the group doing the study in my OP. Confirming my suspension that the "article" I was enquiring about is from a group with a poor track record of putting out data.
(1)https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5986486/8 -
cmriverside wrote: »
When I quit eating that stuff on a regular basis my entire taste preferences changed. Now a bowl of blueberries tastes so sweet. A carrot or potato - I can taste the sweetness.
I believe eating really sweet things (regardless of whether it's artificial) just leads to eating sweet things and craving sweet things. Life for me is much easier and I eat a far more balanced plan in general when I don't have those cravings and when the sweetest thing I might eat all day is a banana.
Interesting experience you describe.
I eat baked sweet stuff and things sweetened with natural sugar-free sweetener (stevia-based, mostly). I love sweet stuff.
And I always thought fruit was very sweet, carrots taste sweet to me, too. As do red and yellow capsicum and some other vegetables.
I dont especially crave sweet things. I love sweet stuff, but I never feel like I need it if that makes sense. (I generally also am very good with rationing any sweets I buy... now, unhealthy savory foods that come in large packages, like pizza? Uhm... yeah, working on that ...)
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mariomicro wrote: »
Thanks. And yep that confirmed that it's not robust. For one, all the results touch the 1 line, and the confidence intervals are huge. Also, when you look at the numbers there was about 1% of participants who had a CV event while in the study, so pretty much the number you would expect.4 -
My personal experience is that eating sweet foods, example cookies, candy will curb my fondness for fruit and vegetables. Weirdly enough, I admit it, artificial sweeteners do the same; they leave a strange taste in my mouth and if I drink a Diet Coke before a meal the food seems tasteless to me.
I think people differ in their reaction to sweets, as exemplified on this thread. 🍦🧁🥧🍰🎂🍪🍩🍫🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍓🍇🍉🍌🍑🍒🥝1 -
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deadenddiva wrote: »My problem with artificial sweeteners is that ever since I had a frightful case of Covid-19 (back in February! ) artificial sweeteners taste metallic, they leave me with a burning sensation in my mouth, and they leave a funky feeling on my tongue, like the gritty "fuzz" on figs or peaches, but stronger.
Interestingly, I've ALWAYS had this happen with the big artificial sweeteners. (Although what you are describing sounds more intense than what I get - it's more YUCK than burning, etc.)
Maybe Covid flipped a switch for you that has always been on for me?1
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