Sweetener Side Effects

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Today on the NutritionFacts Podcast, we answer a wide variety of your questions and discuss the best way to eat on a budget, some clever ways to get your daily dose of iodine, and more. This episode features audio from: Q&A: Dr. Greger Talks Eating on a Budget, Nutritional Benefi ...  Show more

Have you seen the headlines? Social media and the internet at large are abuzz with the controversy surrounding the well-known artificial sweetener aspartame. 

The recent classification of aspartame as a possible human carcinogen (category 2B) by the International Agency ...

Sugar is often among the first things people ditch in the New Year, and the most common replacement? Artificial sweeteners. But what if replacing sugar with its calorie-free counterpart is actually doing more harm than good? For this episode, we speak to Dr. Jotham Suez, a profes ...  Show more

In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in the potential negative health effects of lectins. What are lectins? They’re a type of protein found in many plant foods such as legumes, wholegrains and some fruits and vegetables. If you take YouTube clips and popular diet b ...  Show more

With all the recent health focus on sugar, poor old fruit has gotten undeserved attention for the simple reason that it is high in sugar. And from that, some very average advice has surfaced that people need to limit how much whole fruit they eat. Now a systematic review puts to ...  Show more