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In part 1 of this Exclusive Interview, Judith Wylie-Rosett talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed about the safety of non-nutritive sweeteners.
Judith Wylie-Rosett, EdD, RD is a professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY.
Transcript of this video segment:
Freed: This is Steve Freed and we’re here at the American Diabetes Association, 78th Scientific Sessions. And we have with us today a very special guest, Judith Wylie-Rosett. Is that correct?
Wylie-Rosett: That is correct.
Freed: And she’s doing a presentation here. And maybe we can just start out with telling us a little bit about yourself and what you do.
Wylie-Rosett: I’m New York based at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Co-Director of the Center for Diabetes Translation Research, which basically the purpose is to try to do research that translates current evidence into care, and basically just dissemination and implementation of research related to that, so that diabetes care improves as advances in knowledge improves.
Freed: So, the title of your presentation, if I’m correct, is Evidence for Effective Non-nutritive Sweeteners on Cardiometabolic Health in Adults.
Wylie-Rosett: Yes. And the reason I was asked to do this talk is I’m the American Diabetes Association liaison to the Heart Association Nutrition Committee. And there is a draft of a paper, a scientific advisory on the use of low calorie sweetened beverages in relation to cardiometabolic health. The statement is not yet out, but because I was a member of the writing committee they asked me to do this presentation.
Freed: Well, I’ve got to ask the question that I keep seeing popping on the internet. The non-nutritive sweeteners, are they dangerous in any shape or form in the amounts that normal people use them?
Wylie-Rosett: The FDA has determined that, the ones that are in the market in the US, that they have done safety checks and consider them to be safe. Maybe there are some questions that have been raised about health, but they may be more about how people use them rather than whether they use them or not. Maybe people who use them may have other unhealthy lifestyle issues as well.