Sweet Bacteria

Recent scientific news out of the Weizmann Institute once again shows the power that intestinal bacteria have over our lives.  There's evidence that using artificial sweeteners instead of sugar alters the populations of bacterial species in our gut. The result is a greater tendency toward diabetes and weight gain.

Artificial sweeteners raise the blood sugar level and can make us fatter.

But they're careful with their advice:

"...the last thing we want is to drive people away from sweeteners back to sugar without testing this. Don't draw premature conclusions from the study." 

Next they'll be telling us to eat more butter. It just goes on and on.