Artificial sweeteners and metabolic dysregulation: Lessons learned from agriculture and the laboratory

Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 179-186

  Shearer, Jane ^a   Swithers, Susan E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial sweeteners; Disease risk; Metabolism; Nutrition; Obesity; Population health

Indexed keywords

SWEETENING AGENT;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; HUMAN; METABOLIC DISORDER; OBESITY;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; HUMANS; METABOLIC DISEASES; OBESITY; SWEETENING AGENTS;

EID: 84978173077     PISSN: 13899155     EISSN: 15732606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11154-016-9372-1     Document Type: Review

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