[felixfurtak]

I would highly recommend watching the BBC documentary "The Men Who Made Us Fat". This reaches broadly the same conclusions. Fat is fairly innocuous, but the real danger food is Sugar, and artificial sweeteners tend to make things worse.

[swombat]

Why do artificial sweeteners make things worse?

Are 2 little sweetener pills in my coffee really worse than two cubes of sugar?

[unoti]

It seems possible to me. I know Sucralose is actually made from sugar as a starting point, then they chemically alter it.

As for can it be harmful, maybe so:

"A Duke University study[35] funded by the Sugar Association found evidence that doses of Splenda of between 100 and 1000 mg/kg, containing sucralose at 1.1 to 11 mg/kg (compare to the FDA Acceptable Daily Intake of 5 mg/kg), reduced the amount of fecal microflora in rats by up to 50%, increased the pH level in the intestines, contributed to increases in body weight, and increased levels of P-glycoprotein (P-gp).[36] These effects have not been reported in humans."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucralose#Other_potential_effec...

[TomGullen]

I don't know too much about it but when I was looking at sweeteners to see if they would work on my keto diet I found that they are very high carb generally.