Artificial sugar

The FDA has approved 5 kinds of artificial sugars saccharin, acesulfame, aspartame, neotame, and sucralose. “While they are not magic bullets, smart use of non-nutritive sweeteners could help you reduce added sugars in your diet, therefore lowering the number of calories you eat. Reducing calories could help you attain and maintain a healthy body weight, and thereby lower your risk of heart disease and diabetes,” said Dr. Christopher Gardner, an associate professor of medicine at Stanford University in California. people will often replace regular soda for  diet then say "it is ok to eat cake I am dirking diet. according to a Harvard medical study "daily consumption of diet drinks was associated with a 36% greater risk for metabolic syndrome and a 67% increased risk for type 2 diabetes. Aren’t these diseases that artificial sweeteners may help prevent in the first place?" I do not know about you but I will think long and hard about artificial sweeteners

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/artificial-sweeteners-sugar-free-but-at-what-cost-201207165030