If you’re trying to avoid sugar...artificial sweeteners may not be the way to go.????According to a new study done by the Medical College of Wisconsin and Marquette University, despite the addition non-caloric artificial sweeteners to everyday diets, there has still been a drastic rise in obesity and diabetes.????They tested their hypothesis on rats and cell cultures and disclaim that with all rodent studies, the results may differ in humans.????They found that both sugar and artificial sweeteners exhibit negative effects linked to obesity and diabetes. ????Lead author, Dr.

Brian Hoffman said in a statement: in moderation, our bodies have the machinery to handle sugar; it is when the system is overloaded over a long period of time that this machinery breaks down.????According to Newsweek, the research comes after a March 2018 study on human fat-derived stem cells and fat samples at George Washington University that suggested a link between sweeteners, metabolic syndrome, prediabetes and diabetes. ??