Weight Gain linked to Artificial Sweeteners
Foods and beverages that contain no-calorie artificial sweeteners may be ruining your ability to control your food intake and body weight, according to new research.
Studies compared with rats that ate yogurt sweetened with glucose (a simple sugar), rats that ate yogurt sweetened with the zero-calorie artificial sweetener saccharin:
• Consumed more calories (and didn’t make up for it by cutting back later)
• Gained more weight
• Put on more body fat
It’s thought that consuming artificial sweeteners breaks the connection between a sweet sensation and a high-calorie food, thereby changing your body’s ability to regulate intake.
Researchers also measured the rats’ core body temperatures, which typically rise after eating. However, after eating a sweet, high-calorie meal, rats that ate saccharin had a lower rise in body temperature than rats that ate glucose.
Researchers believe that this response led the rats to overeat, and made it harder to burn off the calories later.
They concluded that consuming foods sweetened with saccharin would lead to greater weight gain and body fat than eating the same foods sweetened with sugar.
Researchers believe that consuming other artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, sucralose, and acesulfame K would have similar effects. (start reading labels)
The evidence just keeps pouring in that consuming artificial sweeteners will likely wreak havoc on your body by impairing your ability to regulate your appetite naturally.
The belief that eating artificially sweetened foods and drinking artificially sweetened beverages will help you to lose weight is a carefully orchestrated deception. So if you are still opting for diet choices for this reason, you are being sorely misled.
In reality, these diet foods and drinks ruin your body’s ability to count calories, thus boosting your inclination to overindulge. Unfortunately, most public health agencies and nutritionists in the United States recommend these toxic artificial sweeteners as an acceptable alternative to sugar, which is at best confusing and at worst harming the health of those who take their misguided advice.
Consider what the research says:
• Diet sodas may double your risk of obesity
• Artificial sweeteners can stimulate your appetite, increase carbohydrate cravings, and stimulate fat storage and weight gain
Yet, gaining weight is only one of the side effects of consuming these man-made chemical sweeteners.
The Toxic Dangers of Artificial Sweeteners
What’s wrong with those tiny pink, blue and yellow packets? Well, take aspartame for instance.
The phenylalanine in aspartame can lead to symptoms of depression because it distorts your serotonin/dopamine balance. It can also lead to migraine headaches and brain tumors through a similar mechanism.
So aside from causing you to gain weight, artificial sweeteners may cause all sorts of nasty side effects to your health. With optimal health comes easier fat loss, so focus on health first and the fat loss will follow. At the Body Project many of our clients have gone through our purification program and lost an average of 14 pounds in three weeks.
How to Kick the Artificial Sweetener Habit
If you consume a lot of diet foods and beverages, it’s likely because you have sweet cravings (yet you think you are making a healthy choice by avoiding sugar).
Your body, however, is craving sweets because you are not giving it the fuel it needs. Finding out your metabolic type will tell you exactly which foods you need to eat to feel full and satisfied. It may sound hard to believe right now, but once you start eating right for your nutritional type, your sweet cravings will most likely disappear.
Why, because everyone’s chemistry is different, that’s why cookie cutter programs will get you only so far. At the Body Project Studio we can also check for yeast problems and mineral imbalances to make sure you don’t have any sugar cravings. As you balance your chemistry, not only do you optimize your health, but a by-product of that is you are going to look better.
Comments
i am very keen about my diet calorie intake coz i dont wanna get fat’-.
Diet Foods should be composed of low sugar and high fiber foods’,`
my girlfriend is always counting her diet calories everytime we eat on the restaurant-’:
i like to consume diet foods coz they can help you slim a bit and avoid to much body fat*,’
every woman is conscious about how much diet calories she takes, diet calories should be kept at a minimum “
diet foods that are nutritious would be the best for our bodies, most diet foods are not very nutritious ,,’
.”` I am really thankful to this topic because it really gives great information *”*
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