By Hanna Webster | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Sucralose, a common artificial sweetener, may be preventing the body from responding to cancer immunotherapy, a new study out of the University of Pittsburgh finds.

The results come as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services turns its attention toward ultraprocessed foods, with efforts to ban artificial food dyes and sweeteners. The Make America Healthy Again Report, released in May by the White House, spotlights artificial sweeteners such as aspartame and sucralose as ubiquitous and concerning for a variety of reasons — including their role in compromising the integrity of the microbiome and the success of cancer treatments.

Inside the body’s digestive tract, the microbiome houses trillions of bacteria and around 5,000 different bacte

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