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Is sucralose (splenda) bad for you? and can it really make some medications (like birth control pills) less effective?i read an article that said that
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Article not useful: The article you read is from 2012. It is based upon absorption of sucralose in the stomachs of rats. No direct evidence of sucralose impacting birth control in humans.
Answered 8/21/2017
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