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‘Sweeteners not good for diabetics’

Governor Wycliffe Oparanya testing for blood sugar levels at Kakamega County Hospital during the launch of Diabetes Comprehensive Care Unit at the facility on July 30th, 2015. {PHOTO: CHRISPEN SECHERE}

Artificial sweeteners are not the healthy option for both diabetics and non-diabetics.

This comes in the wake of growing amount of evidence showing that instead of lowering risks for obesity and diabetes, artificial sweeteners have the opposite effects.

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