Did you know that your body actually gets confused by artificial sweeteners?
The dissociation between sweet taste and calorie intake may put the regulatory system that controls hunger and body weight out of sync, thus sabotaging weight loss plans. A study on rodents showed that those fed saccharin actually gained weight compared to rodents fed sucrose.
When you take in artificial sweeteners you’re making your taste buds less sensitive
Artificial sweeteners are a hundredfold sweeter than sucrose (table sugar). By getting ourselves used to so much sweet, normal sweet flavors, of fruit for example, become bland and so do other healthful foods such as grains and vegetables, thus reducing our willingness to consume them and ultimately the quality of our diet.
The long term effect are really aren’t clear yet
Even though there have been many studies on artificial sweeteners and disease such cancer, not a lot of the focused on long term weight gain. So really your taking in something that you don’t really what it could do to you.
Now you can decide with a little more information!
