How to Lose Weight? Don't Use Sugar Substitutes

After much deliberation you decide that it's time you lost some weight. You've looked at your current diet and decided that you want to make some changes. The first to go is sugar. No more sugar in your coffee, and from now on you're going to examine every packet for any sign of sugar. You are convinced that this will do the trick!

Are you right about sugar? The answer is yes...and no. What do you think sugar is? Actually, it's a chemical not a food. Although it comes from plants, it has no fiber, no carbohydrate, no protein and no enzymes. It is totally 'empty'. It only has empty calories.

When you eat sugar, you put your body in a bit of a dilemma. In order to metabolize the sugar it has to borrow nutrients from other cells. When your brain gets the message that its reserves are being depleted, it sends out hunger signals. Your reaction is to come to its rescue - usually with some high-calorie food. The result is weight gain.

You reaction to stop eating sugar isn't a bad one. If you decide that you can't do without that sweet taste and decide to use a sweetener like saccharin or aspartame and buy foods containing sugar substitutes, then you're making a mistake.

Despite a huge increase in the use of sugar substitutes, there has been no end to the obesity crisis, in fact it's got worse. This has been puzzling scientists.

However, a recent study at Perdue University found that instead of helping you to lose weight, artificial sweeteners could actually be causing your weight to increase!

At Perdue University scientists carried out experiments with animals - some were fed food containing natural sweeteners and others food with artificial sweeteners. The results were alarming. The animals that were fed artificial sweeteners actually gained weight. The reason this happened is that our/their bodies associate sweetness with food loaded with calories. When the body recognizes that the food containing artificial sweeteners is not loaded with calories, it compensates by sending out hunger signals and we eat more to make up the shortfall - the result is weight gain.

So what about sugar? The best thing to do is to reduce sugar intake gradually, but most importantly, avoid artificial sweeteners.
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