Can Artificial Sweeteners Make you Fat?
Purdue University Tests Sweeteners!
It might be better to pour that diet soda down the drain if you are trying to lose weight or maintain your weight. Scientists at Purdue University have discovered that more calories are consumed when artificial sweeteners are used than when natural sweeteners are used. In a series of experiments, scientists at Purdue University compared weight gain and eating habits in rats whose diets were supplemented with sweetened food containing either zero-calorie saccharin or sugar. Susan Swithers, a professor of psychological sciences at Purdue University and a co-author of the study on artificial sweeteners says "the studies suggest artificial sweeteners somehow disrupt the body's ability to regulate incoming calories. It's still a bit of a mystery why they are overeating, but we definitely have evidence that the animals getting artificially sweetened yogurt end up eating more calories than the ones getting calorically sweetened yogurt."
Purdue University Tests Sweeteners!
It might be better to pour that diet soda down the drain if you are trying to lose weight or maintain your weight. Scientists at Purdue University have discovered that more calories are consumed when artificial sweeteners are used than when natural sweeteners are used. In a series of experiments, scientists at Purdue University compared weight gain and eating habits in rats whose diets were supplemented with sweetened food containing either zero-calorie saccharin or sugar. Susan Swithers, a professor of psychological sciences at Purdue University and a co-author of the study on artificial sweeteners says "the studies suggest artificial sweeteners somehow disrupt the body's ability to regulate incoming calories. It's still a bit of a mystery why they are overeating, but we definitely have evidence that the animals getting artificially sweetened yogurt end up eating more calories than the ones getting calorically sweetened yogurt."