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| Sugar Substitutes - Vending Business by YoNaturals |
| 07.18.08 (11:18 am) [edit] |
| They come in pink, blue, and yellow and we drop them in our morning coffee or use them to sweeten our tea, yet the range of artificial sweeteners that have increasingly made a noticeable presence for themselves on store shelves and tabletops around the country may not be as healthy as many of us have been led to think. YoNaturals vending business never uses artificial flavorings if at all possible New findings from scientists at Purdue University indicate that sugar substitutes, which offer the same sweet taste as sugar without those pesky calories, are not as good for weight loss as many diets suggest and may actually be a factor contributing to the high incidence of obesity around the country. Conducting several experiments, the research team compared the eating habits and weight gain of rats whose diets were supplemented by foods that contained either sugar or zero-calorie saccharin. The team's report, which appears in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience, offered some interesting findings: rats that ate artificially sweetened yogurt over a two-week time span ate more calories and showed more weight gain, in the form of fat, than animals that ate yogurt that was flavored with glucose, which is a naturally occurring high-calorie sweetener. The newest findings add to results the team published in 2004, when it discovered that rats that ate saccharin-flavored foods showed a tendency to consume more than animals that simply ate foods that were not artificially sweetened. With the newest study's findings added to those from the previous study, the researchers say there is even more evidence that how people eat depends largely on automatic, conditioned responses that are beyond conscious control. Comparing the rats to Pavlov's dogs, which were trained to produce saliva at the sound of a ringing bell, the scientists said that the rats are naturally trained to expect a large amount of calories when they taste sweet foods because sweet foods are generally high in calories. But when animals consume the saccharin-flavored foods, which offer a sweet taste without the calories, the link is broken, leading them to consume more and thus gain more weight. The researchers, who are planning future studies to continue to investigate why eating low-calorie foods does not always lead to weight loss, said that that completely ditching artificial sweeteners may be an overreaction, as too much sugar can lead to obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. But they also said that people should remember that the calories they aren't eating, which could reappear as an extra helping of dessert later, may be just as important to think about as the calories they are eating. By Matthew McArdle for YoNaturals |