date:Dec 23, 2013
y interact with the gut in the longer term, but so far no-one's managed to determine the actual mechanisms through which these sweeteners act, Dr Young says.
It's a complicated area because the way in which the sweet taste receptors in our gut detect and act on sweetness is very complex.
So far it appears that artificial sweeteners have limited impact in the short term, but in people in a pre-diabetic or diabetic state, who are more likely to be regularly high users of artificial sweeteners, i