Is your diet dooming your future grandkids?

Eat zero-calorie sweeteners and you may pass on the negative effects to your grandchildren, a study published in Frontiers in Nutrition on April 10 concluded. Researchers found that when two groups of mice were fed sucralose, a sweetener used in Splenda, and Stevia, a more natural zero-calorie sweetener, the offspring of their offspring were worse at regulating their blood sugar levels and experienced changes to their gut bacteria. Sucralose had a much more powerful negative effect than Stevia. The study indicates that how you eat could impact your grandchildren in ways scientists are only just starting to understand. To learn more about sweeteners’ effects on humans, read “The Sweet Deception of Splenda.”