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Are artificial sweeteners making you FAT?

Recent literature in the Journal of Behavior Neuroscience examined the role that sweet taste has on predicting the caloric content of food. Researchers suggested that "animals may use sweet taste to predict the caloric contents of food. Eating sweet, non-caloric substances may degrade this predictive relationship, leading to positive energy balance through increased food intake and / or diminished energy expenditure". SO WHAT DID THE RESEARCHERS FIND?

The results of this study demonstrated that rats who where given non-caloric sweeteners exhibited greater caloric intake, greater body weight gain, increased adiposity, impaired ability to compensate for the calories contained in novel sweet food by eating less during subsequent test meal, and a smaller increment in core body temperature following consumption of a novel, sweetened high calorie food.

Researchers suggested that this may help to explain the growing trend in obesity. The increased consumption of non-caloric / calorie free sweetened beverages, snacks, and foods may be messing up our ability to predict our caloric intake and may help to explain the growing obesity trends we see in humans today?

Take home message from the study: If you're a rat, don't consume artificial sweeteners!

All kidding aside, more human trials would be needed to confirm these findings. However, the results seem to be consistent with some previous research done on animals. It would be interesting to have a study that compared artificial versus natural sweeteners to see if there would be any difference in the results if a plant based natural non-caloric sweetener such as stevia was used. My first inclination would be that it may have the same physiological effects as did the artificial sweetener had in this study. So you may also want to be careful with natural low / non-caloric sweeteners such stevia, xylitol, etc.

If you're having trouble dropping the lbs and you tend to consume a lot of artificial or natural sweeteners (soda, gums, bars, powders, tea, coffee, etc.), you may what to consider eliminating them from your diet all together.

Swithers, S., Davidson T. A role for sweet taste: Calorie Predictive Relations in Energy Regulation in Rats. Behavioral Neuroscience. 2008 (22) 1: 161-173.

Full text link:
http://www.apa.org/journals/releases/bne-feb08-swithers.pdf

In good health,
Dr. Rene Asselin

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