Souring on artificial sweeteners: Substances may boost appetite Artificial sweeteners have gone from diet darlings — touted for allowing people to get a hit of sweetness without the calories of sugar — to a more maligned ingredient, as evidence mounts suggesting a complicated net effect on calorie consumption. Now, a new study done in fruit flies and mice offers insights into how zero-calorie sweeteners may actually increase appetite. The thing is that it is much better to rather take the plunge and cut out the sugar and don't move to sweeteners. I made the move a while back (no reducing intake, just stopped it) after realising what sugar does. The interesting thing is that my palette adjusted within days. I still take milk in my coffee (and I should probably stop this as well) but I changed from low fat to full cream milk. That full cream milk added back some flavour to the coffee that I had lost with removing the sugar. The sugar was really a flavour substitute I was using when I was eating fat free. Once I moved away from fat free products I found the adding of sugar was really not necessary for me. See http://ift.tt/29CsLeO
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