Weight Gain Said To Be Increased With The Use of Artificial Sweetners

Recent reports have emerged that based on experiments on laboratory rats, Artificial Sweeteners Could Make You Gain Weight.

The reason for this discovery is due to the fact that those eating food sweetened with artificial sweeteners ate more calories than their counterparts whose food was sweetened with normal sugar.

Background investigation into this article demonstrates that the study is the work of Drs Susan Swithers and Terry Davidson, two psychologists based at the Ingestive Behavior Research Center at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, and is to be published in the February 2008 issue of Behavioral Neuroscience, a journal of the American Psychological Association (APA).

According to the suggestions of the authors, a sweet taste may cause animals to anticipate the calorie content of food, and eating artificial sweeteners with little or no calories undermines this connection, leading to energy imbalance by increasing food intake or reducing energy expenditure.

They elaborate as follows: "The data clearly indicate that consuming a food sweetened with no-calorie saccharin can lead to greater body-weight gain and adiposity than would consuming the same food sweetened with a higher-calorie sugar."

Still in spite of these findings, although they recognized that these results may be contrary to expectations, and indeed the news may not be well received by clinicians and health professionals who support the use of low and zero calorie sweeteners as a way to lose weight, and this data is based on rats and not humans, the authors pointed out their findings are in line with increasing similar evidence.

To conclude, Swithers and Davidson pointed out that although it takes more conscious effort, counting calories is still a good way to keep control of weight.


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