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Old Sun, Jan-08-17, 03:10
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Default It’s a bitter blow: low-calorie sweeteners may fatten us up

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From The Times
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8 January, 2017

It’s a bitter blow: low-calorie sweeteners may fatten us up

Low-calorie sweeteners may be contributing to the obesity epidemic, a leading researcher has warned.

Dr Chee Chia, a clinician scientist at the National Institute on Aging at the US Department of Health and Human Services, said research she had co-authored suggested that individuals who broadly ate the same diet — and the same number of calories — became fatter if they consumed low-calorie sweeteners.

She said one possible explanation was that the sweeteners were affecting the body’s metabolism, triggering it to lay down more abdominal fat — a strong risk factor for cardiovascular disease and mortality. However, more research was needed to establish if this was happening.

“This is a cause of concern and has important public health implications,” she said. “We really need to do more work to look at what is going on.”

Under pressure over their contribution to increasing levels of obesity, members of the food and drink industry have reformulated products and launched new sugar-free items that often contain low-calorie sweeteners.

A report published last week by researchers at Imperial College London and two universities in Brazil argued that diet drinks might be no better for weight loss than their full-sugar counterparts.

Chia was a co-author of one of the largest studies into the consumption of low-calorie sweeteners, published in Plos One — the journal of the Public Library of Science — in November. It looked at 1,454 individuals and data collected from 1984 to 2012, adjusting for diet, weight and body size.

It concluded: “Low-calorie sweetener use is independently associated with heavier relative weight, a larger waist and a higher prevalence and incidence of abdominal obesity.”

Chia said participants who were not overweight at the beginning of the study accumulated more fat around their stomach if they ate low- calorie sweeteners than those who did not.

The Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel has published research suggesting that artificial sweeteners could change healthy microbes that live in the gut and disrupt the body’s ability to regulate sugar.

The International Sweeteners Association said Chia’s research was an observational study and could not prove cause and effect.

■ Kellogg’s is to cut the amount of sugar in Coco Pops — one of the most sugary children’s cereals — by 14% as part of a government drive for healthier breakfasts.

The US-based cereal giant confirmed this weekend that original Coco Pops, which contains more sugar than chocolate ice cream, will be reformulated in March. The company said the move would cut some 600 tons of sugar from the British diet in 2017.

The reformulation comes after the government body Public Health England (PHE) told manufacturers it wanted a 20% cut in the sugar contained in cereals by 2020.

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