Artificial sweeteners: Safe or unsafe?

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 225-227

  Qurrat Ul Ain, ^a   Khan, Sohaib Ahmed ^b  

^a CIVIL HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

^b DOW UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Artificial sweeteners; Diabetes mellitus; Natural sweeteners; Reactive hypoglycaemia

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHORIC ACID; SWEETENING AGENT; ACETOSULFAME; ASPARTAME; DIPEPTIDE; NEOTAME; SACCHARIN; SUCROSE; THIAZINE DERIVATIVE; TRICHLOROSUCROSE;

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CALORIC INTAKE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENERGY YIELD; HEALTH HAZARD; HONEY; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; METABOLISM; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; OBESITY; WEIGHT CONTROL; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; NEOPLASM; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; WEIGHT GAIN;

ASPARTAME; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIPEPTIDES; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; OBESITY; SACCHARIN; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS; THIAZINES; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84928226079     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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