Nutrition Tips For Women

A new study suggests that drinking diet sodas and other soft drinks with artificial sweeteners may lead to weight gain. The reasoning given is that when your taste buds taste sweetness, you body automatically prepares itself for a load of calories. When this isn’t done, it can completely mess up our metabolism.

A Purdue University study released in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience discerned the above data in a study done with rats. The rats which were fed the diet sodas gained weight. Apparently, drinking diet sodas simulates hunger which then causes us to over-eat. Health 24 writes:

Psychologists at Purdue University’s Ingestive Behaviour Research Centre reported that, relative to rats that ate yogurt sweetened with glucose (a simple sugar with 15 calories/teaspoon, the same as table sugar), rats given yogurt sweetened with zero-calorie saccharin later consumed more calories, gained more weight, put on more body fat, and didn’t make up for it by cutting back later, all at levels of statistical significance.