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By 2019, 60% of all the soft drinks sold by Coca-Cola and 83% of those sold by Pepsi were sugar-free.
到2019年，可口可乐销售的60%的软饮料与百事可乐销售的83%的软饮料都是无糖的。
Today there are even sugar-free “energy drinks” such as Monster Absolutely Zero and Lucozade Zero Pink Lemonade – a puzzling concept, given that sugar is usually what provides the energy in an energy drink.
现如今，甚至还出现了无糖的“能量饮料”，如Monster绝对零糖饮料和Lucozade零卡粉色柠檬水——这是一个令人费解的概念，因为能量饮料中提供能量的通常是糖。
“Sweeteners” is a catch-all term for a diverse range of chemicals, most of which are far sweeter than sugar, gram for gram, but contain few or no calories.
“甜味剂”是各种化学物质的统称，其中大多数比糖的甜度高，但每克的卡路里含量却很少，甚至不含卡路里。
One sweetener approved for use in the US, advantame, is 20,000 times sweeter than sugar.
美国批准使用的一种甜味剂爱德万甜，甜度是糖的2万倍。
Other sweeteners, such as xylitol, which is commonly used in chewing gum, are comparable in sweetness to sugar.
其他甜味剂，如口香糖中常用的木糖醇，甜度与糖相当。
It’s easy to see why many public health experts might look warmly on these sweeteners as an alternative to sugar.
这些甜味剂可作为糖的替代品，许多公共健康专家对这样的观点热烈欢迎，他们这么做的原因不难理解。
We know that lots of sugar, consumed daily, will increase your risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke, not to mention weight gain and tooth decay.
我们知道，每天摄入大量的糖会增加患2型糖尿病、心脏病和中风的风险，更不用说增重和蛀牙的风险了。
As a lover of chocolate brownies and baklava and hundreds of other sweet and lovely things, I wish it were otherwise.
作为一个巧克力布朗尼、果仁蜜饼和其他数百种可爱甜品的爱好者，我希望甜味剂可替代糖。
In the light of the many problems with sugar, three central health claims are regularly made for artificial sweeteners. These relate to weight, diabetes and teeth.
鉴于糖的诸多问题，人工甜味剂通常有三个核心健康声明。这些声明都与体重、糖尿病和牙齿有关。
According to an industry website managed by the International Sweeteners Association, sweeteners are useful for “weight management” (because they contain no calories), for people with diabetes (because they supposedly “have no impact” on blood sugar levels) and for oral health (because unlike sugar, they don’t promote tooth decay).
根据国际甜味剂协会管理的一个行业网站，甜味剂对“体重管理”(不含卡路里)、糖尿病患者(对血糖水平“没有影响”)与口腔健康(与糖不同，不会增加蛀牙风险)都很有用。
Public health organisations around the world have largely accepted the sweetener industry’s claims, particularly when it comes to managing diabetes.
世界各地的公共卫生组织大多数接受了甜味剂行业的说法，尤其是在治疗糖尿病方面。
One article on the NHS website quotes a dietitian who describes sweeteners as “a really useful alternative for people with diabetes who need to watch their blood sugar levels while still enjoying their favourite foods”.
NHS网站上的一篇文章引用了一位营养师的话，他将甜味剂描述为“一种对糖尿病患者非常有用的替代品，这些患者需要在享用最喜欢的食物的同时观察他们的血糖水平”。
But at just the point when this range of substances have worked their way into so many products, questions are rising as to whether they really have the benefits that have been attributed to them.
但就在一系列甜味剂已经在如此多的产品中发挥作用的时候，人们开始质疑它们是否真的具有人们所认为的那些好处。
In July, the World Health Organization (WHO) sowed terror in the diet soft drinks industry by issuing new draft guidelines on “non-sugar sweeteners”.
7月，世界卫生组织发布了关于“无糖甜味剂”的新指南草案，这在无糖软饮料行业引起了恐慌。
Researchers for the WHO conducted a vast new review of the scientific evidence, examining hundreds of studies on the effects of sweeteners on humans. What they found was startling.
世界卫生组织的研究人员对科学证据进行了一项全新的大规模审查，检查了数百项关于甜味剂对人类影响的研究。他们的发现令人吃惊。
