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Study links long-term artificial sweetener intake to increased body fat adipose tissue volume (www.sciencedaily.com)

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[–] housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah ha! I don't know why you were down-voted here because this explains a lot. One must always consider the source of the research funding. It's best to have as independent and objective research as possible. Clearly Big Sugar is concerned about the loss of revenue from the recent improvements in taste and mouth feel of artificial sweeteners.

[–] fear@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute under grant numbers R21 HL135300 and R01 HL150053, as well as by contracts from the NIH/NHLBI funding the four field centers.

It says right on the study how it was funded, that guy was being sarcastic and rude which is why he was downvoted. If there is a bias in this study, it's not immediately apparent from the funding.

[–] housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Obviously I missed the sarcasm. Yikes. Shame on me. 🙃