[adamhearn]

It seems like the average consumer of diet sweeteners is already likely to be overweight, diabetic, or have other ailments. This article seems highly sensationalized. For the average person, the risk of sugar impacting blood glucose levels seems far riskier than any side effect of a NSS

[bombcar]

As a former twitter entertainer once said, "I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke."

I suppose we could do a nation-wide experiment by insisting that the sugar water vendors use only NSS for a year; but that would probably result in the overthrow of the government.

[irthomasthomas]

The fattest person I ever worked with used to drink 4-8 litres of diet coke a day. When I met him again two years later, his weight was normal. Asked how he did it, he just stopped drinking the diet coke.

NNSs trigger the same insulin/fat storage mechanism as sugar, but they arent absorbed, and stay on the blood longer, leading to insulin resistance.

[artifabrian]

That tweet doesn't reflect my experience at all actually, in Europe at least. I know it's an anecdote but I know many fit people that drink frequently Diet Coke or Coke Zero. Is this a US thing?

[dataflow]

> As a former twitter entertainer once said, "I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke."

There's a lot he hasn't seen in this world. Doesn't mean those things don't happen.