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Artificial sweeteners: The health controversy that will not go away

By Sarah Neville & Madeleine Speed
Financial Times·
14 mins to read

Recent warnings are the latest in a series of scares, but the industry says sugar substitutes remain a vital weapon against obesity and diabetes.

When Dana Small, a professor of psychiatry at Yale University, decided to investigate the impact of artificially sweetened drinks on the brain and gut, she made a startling discovery.

Participants in her study who were assigned drinks containing sucralose, a popular artificial sweetener, displayed no negative effects. But a cohort given the same drink with a

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