Judith Wylie-Rosett Part 2, Who Uses Non-Nutritive Sweeteners?

In part 2 of this Exclusive Interview, Judith Wylie-Rosett talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed about the various users of low calorie sweeteners.

Judith Wylie-Rosett, EdD, RD is a professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY.

Transcript of this video segment:

Freed: Is it just people that want to lose weight that use them, or who uses them?

Wylie-Rosett: Interestingly enough if you take the national sample in the US from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, basically the users tend to be — as weight goes up, people who are obese, about half of the people use non-nutritive sweeteners, whereas about a third of people who are normal weight. Women use it at a higher rate, about 10% higher than men. College educated, higher income people use more and people with diabetes — 2/3rds of people with diabetes use it. Only about 40% of people who don’t have diabetes use it. So, it’s basically people who are probably concerned about weight and concerned about diabetes are probably the biggest users.

Freed: So, what are the most commonly consumed sources of low calorie sweeteners?

Wylie-Rosett: By far and large the biggest use is in diet beverages. About three quarters of what’s consumed by adults is in diet beverages, very small amounts in food.

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