Dr. Susan E.
Swithers from the Purdue Department of Psychological Sciences and Ingestive
Behavior Research Center authored
a commentary entitled Artificial sweeteners
produce the counterintuitive effect of inducing metabolic derangements.
Her opinion piece was most often mistaken for a scientific study by
sensation-seeking media. It appeared in the journal, Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism.
Much of the media
take on this position paper bought into the author’s theory, that somehow
artificially-sweetened beverages (ASBs) are equivalent to sugar-sweetened
beverages for provoking obesity and the various adverse biomarkers of metabolic
syndrome, especially diabetes and cardiovascular disease. In the piece, she
cites several studies, some of which assert an association between ASBs and
adverse health effects, some of which do not. She also cites rodent studies in
support of her hypothesis, most of which she authored.
ACSH’s Dr.
Gilbert Ross had this assessment of the article and its stated mission: “What’s
wrong with this commentary and its hypothesis? What’s right with it, is a
better question. Dr. Swithers, despite her PhD, apparently never passed (or
even took) Epidemiology and Statistics 101, as she flouts most of the key
dictates of cause-and-effect and ignores the rest.....To Read More....
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