date:May 20, 2019
ke and added sugar intake were also greatest in children consuming both sugary and artificially-sweetened beverages.
These data suggest that instead of using diet soft drinks as substitutes for sugary beverages, children may actually be adding them to their normal sugar intake, Swithers said. Such high intakes of sugar and sugar substitutes are problematic, because they have been hypothesised to groom childrens palates to expect that foods are supposed to taste incredibly sweet. They may not wa