Artificial Sweetener May Worsen Crohn’s Symptoms

The war over the benefits and negative effects of artificial sweeteners continue to rage on as researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (CWRUSM) found that the artificial sweetener sucralose (Splenda) worsened gut inflammation in mice with the Crohns-like disease but had no substantive effect on those without the condition. Findings from the new study—published recently in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases through an article entitled “ The Artificial Sweetener Sp