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Does the American Diabetes Association work for patients or companies?

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I thought Splenda has almost nonexistent calorie and I am not sure what makes it different from aspartame functionally. Any reputable research on the direct damages caused by Splenda?

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9655943/ The study above references 4 different studies that indicate that artificial sweeteners can affect glucose tolerance through changes in the microbiota composition: - https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13793 (free PDF here: https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/44081512/Artificial_Sw... ) - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6363527/ - https://www.ce…

What about dosage? I couldn't find a succinct summary. Can you point out the part indicating how much they experimented with? How many grams of Splendar per day would indicate danger?

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The threat of serious illness/disability/death is a great motivator, it certainly was in my case.

> The threat of serious illness/disability/death is a great motivator, it certainly was in my case. That already existed before the 8-12 weeks of semi-starvation.

I was only diagnosed at the beginning of January.
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