Diet Cokes May not be Helping you Diet (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/760762.cms)

Does this make sense to anyone?

The article says diet drinks trick your body into thinking it has consumed more calories than you actually have consumed, then it goes on to say how this does not help to fight obesity.

:d_confuse Color me confused. I thought this was the whole point of artificial sweeteners. Consume no calories while tricking your body into thinking you are consuming calories. So you get fuller on fewer calories. Where is my logic flawed?

Good tip on the chocolate pudding too. One of my favorite low calorie treats.

Diet Cokes May not be Helping you Diet (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/760762.cms)

Does this make sense to anyone?

The article says diet drinks trick your body into thinking it has consumed more calories than you actually have consumed, then it goes on to say how this does not help to fight obesity.

:d_confuse Color me confused. I thought this was the whole point of artificial sweeteners. Consume no calories while tricking your body into thinking you are consuming calories. So you get fuller on fewer calories. Where is my logic flawed?

Good tip on the chocolate pudding too. One of my favorite low calorie treats.



I read that somewhere also - something about how some people's bodies compensate for the artificial sweetner by acting like it is real sweetner. Supposedly, according to the study, the artificial sweetener disrupts the body's ability to count calories and distinguish between the artificial sweetner and a real sweetner.

I avoid the whole issue with sodas and juices. All I drink daily is spring water (lots), green tea unsweetned, and skim milk. Occasionally, a glass of wine or a vodka, straightup. Pretty boring, I know.

yeah i like to avoid artificial sweeteners, just because they are "artificial"
natural is always best, cavemen didnt have splenda! not even bottled sevidia (whatever thta "natural" no-calories sweetener is called)

I also read an article (will attempt to find) that said your body can learn to metabolize aspartame.

"Now, our research reinforces this and takes it one step further, showing that our bodies translate this information about perceived calories into a gauge to tell us when to stop eating."


Wouldn't that help you diet, not hurt??


Also, how does your body create calories that are not there? Is that what they are saying? I don't get it.

Also, how does your body create calories that are not there? Is that what they are saying? I don't get it.

The whole premise behind "artificial sweeteners" is that they're indigestible, therefore, they taste sweet going in but aren't useful to the body so it simply passes it through.

Their research alleges that in time, the body can learn to burn these "fake" sugars to deal with them rather than just shuttling them in and out; I think it's that annoying ability again of the body trying to be as efficient as it can in finding homeostasis.

It makes sense to me... given time, your body can adapt to whatever it is exposed to.

OK, so....

(taken from Aspartame.org)
Upon digestion, aspartame breaks down into three components (aspartic acid, phenylalanine and methanol), which are then absorbed into the blood and used in normal body processes. Neither aspartame nor its components accumulates in the body. These components are used in the body in the same ways as when they are derived from common foods.

As far as I can see from this is that the "components" are used in the body anyhow.....

But as far as calories, it has almost none. So like I said, how does your body create calories from something (just because it is sweet) when there are no calories there.

Forgive me, Aspartame is the only thing that keeps me from downing truckloads of sweets every day, so I feel the need to understand this completely.

OK, found a better version of this to read....the one posted didn't say a whole lot...

http://news.uns.purdue.edu/hp/Swithers.research.html

When you substitute artificial sweetener for real sugar, however, the body learns it can no longer use its sense of taste to gauge calories. So, the body may be fooled into thinking a product sweetened with sugar has no calories and, therefore, people overeat."



Now I get it.