Sucralose, for example, adds no calories (a non-nutritive sweetener) while aspartame contains more than 2% of the calories seen in an equal amount of table sugar (it's the only nutritive sweetener).

But are sugar substitutes the antidote or worse than sugar itself ... There are six FDA-approved sweeteners: acesulfame ...

ANSWER: AST and ALT are enzymes made by the liver that are released in small amounts into the blood, but they can also ...

But cancer risks aside, the jury is still very much out on whether sugar substitutes are any better for your body than regular ... including aspartame (Equal, NutraSweet), sucralose (Splenda ...

However, she sympathizes with the dieter's lament that counting calories requires more conscious effort than consuming low-calorie foods. Swithers adds that based on the lab's hypothesis, other ...

Aspartame: Health Concern Or Hype? The consumption of Aspartame and other artificial sweeteners pose no health threats to ... The simplistic and misguided notion that natural is always better than ...

Most people consume less than ... and sweeteners - and for companies to produce foods that are less sweet, but still tasty. One of the big outstanding research questions is how might aspartame ...

Aspartame is 200 times sweeter than sugar, so it gives the taste without ... Last year a study of 105,000 people compared people who consumed no sweeteners with those who consumed large amounts.

experts worry there's a misconception that sweeteners are much healthier than sugar. Aspartame is still the most popular artificial sweetener in the US based on per capita consumption, used in ...

High fructose corn syrup is no worse than regular sugar. Just having all that sugar, having those empty calories on top of what we already eat adds a lot more calories than most people can fit ...