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by logicallee 3496 days ago
I still didn't click through but you do not suggest a title. Can you summarize in a neutral way? Maybe "on a high-fat diet, artificial sweeteners may exacerbate weight gain?" Is that fair?
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While I was downvoted, 12 hours later Reddit managed to post a much more accurate title (which made its front page). This is Reddit's title:

>Low-calorie sweetener use is independently associated with heavier relative weight, larger waist, and higher prevalence and incidence of abdominal obesity, suggesting that low-calorie sweetener use may not be an effective means of weight control, based on a study of 1,454 participants over 10 years.

This makes total sense to me. It is not fair to summarize this as "prevents weight loss."