This is a hot topic today.  Everywhere you look there’s different types of artificial sweeteners.  Then there’s all sorts of information on the Web, some of it is true, most of it isn’t.  This much is known: eating a bunch of artificial sweeteners encourages you to increase your calorie intake.  That means that if you tend to eat a bunch of fake sugar, you’ll tend to eat more.

Ankerberg-Nobis, Trulie. Clinical research coordinator, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine