Eating sugar = better weight loss?
From: Snizshizzle
Subject: Nutrition
Date/Time 2008-02-11 22:12:23
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Okay, maybe not but compared to the sugar-free alternative, sugar is good.
This was posted in the Philadelphia Inquirer today. The last paragraph is interesting and might explain why I seem to gain the most body fat when I eat breads/pasta and why I haven't noticed any increase in body fat when eating a good amount of candy.
"Sugarless yogurt fattens rats more than sweetened
Another surprise: Those sugar-free snacks could be causing you to add pounds, not lose them.
A study in the February issue of Behavioral Neuroscience reports that lab rats fed artificially sweetened yogurt gained more weight and added more body fat than those who ate the snack sweetened with sugar.
Researchers at Purdue University concluded that artificial sweeteners changed the rodents' ability to regulate how much is eaten by breaking the connection between things that taste sweet and their high caloric value.
While counterintuitive, the researchers said their data were clear, if only in rats.
They speculated that the body gears up to handle lots of calories when it tastes something sweet and becomes confused by artificially sweetened foods. As a result the rat may eat more or expend less energy to compensate."
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