Artificial Sweeteners Make You Fat

Written by on March 24, 2008 in Health

artificial sweetners
Jon Barron talks about how artificial sweeteners increase weight gain rather than weight loss.

…artificial sweeteners may throw off your body’s natural calorie-counting response, leaving you more likely to overindulge in other foods. In experiments on rats, the researchers found that those fed yogurt sweetened with sugar substitutes, “consumed more calories, put on more weight, gained more body fat, and did not cut back on their calorie consumption in the longer term,” when compared to rats eating yogurt sweetened with regular sugar.

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Tony is a business strategist. He publishes the Holistic Networker and produces the Wellness Expo. In his spare time he reads about technology and the mind.

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