Looking at that last para which equates the risk as being the same as diabetes
just to check but do those with diabetes drink or switch to products with this type of sweetener to keep blood sugar down , or is it one that is bad for diabetes?
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CNN: Zero-calorie sweetener (erythritol) linked to heart attack and stroke, study finds
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just to check but do those with diabetes drink or switch to products with this type of sweetener to keep blood sugar down , or is it one that is bad for diabetes?
Yes I was wondering whether the connection might have been that those with diabetes are more likely to have bothI'm not sure about the other sweeteners but I have some diabetic people in my family and when I baked/cooked for them, I used xylitol, as you can substitute sugar 1:1 with it, so baking with it is less complicated. And ugh, xylitol is also a biological weapon in larger amounts, ehehe. (Namely it gives you diarrhea.) It is not necessarily obvious in a cake but we have some sweet soups here and the effect is quite strong in those. One needs to be careful with these sweeteners on many levels.
than the sweetener causing the heart and then saying it causes ‘as bad as diabetes’ difference
ahimsa
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More research has been done since 2023. A quick search found this study that was done on healthy volunteers:
Ingestion of the Non-Nutritive Sweetener Erythritol, but Not Glucose, Enhances Platelet Reactivity and Thrombosis Potential in Healthy Volunteers
But I don't have the skills to analyze whether this is a good or bad study -- so I'll stay out of the discussion!
There are more recent news reports about erythritol, and other artificial sweeteners, that might be more helpful than that CNN article from 2023.
Our household doesn't use them (my husband gets bad side effects from them) so I don't keep track of any of the latest studies.