Diet Pop is Your Diet Enemy
March 5th 2011 01:44
Category: What's Really Good For you
Experts have discovered diet sodas do contribute to weight gain. Just like using a coupon to save money on something you do not need, diet sodas are not fooling the body. Do diet sodas cause weight gain? The overwhelming majority of experts say, "Yes."
Individuals who choose diet sodas in an effort to reduce their overall calorie intake may gain more weight than if they chose the full sugar versions. If you say, "Rats," to that you are right. Purdue University released a study in the Behavioral Neuroscience journal which reports that experiments performed on rats using diets full of artificial sweetener caused them to gain weight. Rats given sugary foods did not. This casts serious doubt on the benefits of artificial sweeteners.
ABC News medical contributor Marie Savard reports that sweeteners actually alter a person's metabolism and brain chemistry.
Although this study centered on animal research, the way the sweetness of the diet soda was registered in the rodent's brain is similar to what happens in a human consumer of diet sodas. The sweeteners, which are between 200 to 13,000 times sweeter than sugar, create an insatiable need for sweets. In other words, it becomes an addiction. The addiction undermines the ability to judge how many calories have been consumed, and the satiation point becomes far out of whack.
........still unconvinced? Read more
Individuals who choose diet sodas in an effort to reduce their overall calorie intake may gain more weight than if they chose the full sugar versions. If you say, "Rats," to that you are right. Purdue University released a study in the Behavioral Neuroscience journal which reports that experiments performed on rats using diets full of artificial sweetener caused them to gain weight. Rats given sugary foods did not. This casts serious doubt on the benefits of artificial sweeteners.
ABC News medical contributor Marie Savard reports that sweeteners actually alter a person's metabolism and brain chemistry.
Although this study centered on animal research, the way the sweetness of the diet soda was registered in the rodent's brain is similar to what happens in a human consumer of diet sodas. The sweeteners, which are between 200 to 13,000 times sweeter than sugar, create an insatiable need for sweets. In other words, it becomes an addiction. The addiction undermines the ability to judge how many calories have been consumed, and the satiation point becomes far out of whack.
........still unconvinced? Read more
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