Hello BBM team, I have started looking in to studies regarding artificial sweeteners and potential risks around dosing in “typical” ranges. I found a study that has me asking a question that I am hoping you may help me answer please? The study:
https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/pdfExtended/S1550-4131(20)30057-7
I am curious to know why the authors would choose to use the word “carbohydrate,” in the title of the paper when they only studied one particular carbohydrate, Maltodextrin. In the title, the front page highlights, and throughout the report the use of the word carbohydrate prevails when referencing the consumption of the combined sucralose and maltodextrin. Please correct me if I am wrong, but this seems a bit deceptive to the actual outcome since there was only one type of carbohydrate tested in their hypothesis. Is this practice deceptive, is it typical? I get that their follow up experiment attempted to isolate maltodextrin effects in the context of their original experiment, but why be confident enough to state “Consumption of sucralose combined with carbohydrates impairs insulin sensitivity”?
You’ll have to ask the authors. People say stupid shit all the time, unfortunately.