[WATCH]: Unsweetening the Diet

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger's videos at bit.ly DESCRIPTION: All sweeteners--natural and artificial, caloric and non-caloric—help maintain cravings for intensely sweet foods. The other two mechanisms by which low calorie sweeteners could counterintuitively lead to weight gain were explored in Wednesday's (nutritionfacts.org and yesterday's (nutritionfacts.org NutritionFacts.org video-of-the-day. If one is able to maintain a healthy diet at home and away, though, then there may be no dietary downside to moderate erythritol consumption. See Erythritol May Be a Sweet Antioxidant (nutritionfacts.org Just remember that most erythritol is absorbed before it reaches the large colon, so if you eat sufficiently large amounts you can

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