There's no harm to doing that if you can do it. But advice like "just eat healthy, natural food" is not really something most people can stick to long term. I know I can't!

When I find myself in a stressful situation the craving for sweets is very strong and artificial sweetners at least mean I have options that won't dump a bunch of calories/refined sugar into my body.

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BirAdam 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Also, what is a natural food? Wheat, maize, oranges, bananas, broccoli... those are human made.

	▲	malfist 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And there's plenty of unnatural, ultraprocessed food that's good for us. Try telling the body builder he can't have a protein shake.

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pizzafeelsright 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I believe in you.

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Forgeties79 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There’s also the cost element on top of the realities of sugar addiction