Haar Warns Against Artificial Sweeteners
Clinical Associate Professor and Chairperson for the Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences聽Mindy Haar, Ph.D., RDN, is quoted in a聽聽article about the World Health Organization鈥檚 (WHO) new recommendations on non-sugar sweeteners. Based on available evidence, the WHO鈥檚 new guidance, released May 15, recommends against using sugar substitutes to help with weight loss or to reduce the risk of diet-related diseases like heart disease and diabetes.
Haar concurs with these findings. She states, 鈥淎s a registered dietitian-nutritionist in practice for more than 40 years, I can certainly attest to the fact that those consuming diet sodas and using sugar substitutes do not necessarily successfully lose excess weight or maintain a healthful weight,鈥� says Haar.