Be careful, Artificial Sweeteners Make More Hungry

Eating a diet soda was not healthier than regular soda consumption. Because the artificial sweetener made into a low-calorie diet soda, in fact, can actually increase the desire to eat more, than when you eat pure sugar.

To see the effect of artificial sweeteners than real sugar, the researchers who published their findings in the journal Cell Metabolism conducted experiments on mice and got the same result: mice fed with sugar false for seven days, ate 50 percent more than mice given food with real sugar. In this case, the mice had the same nerve impulses involvement with humans.

Researchers found that the reward centers of the brain to associate sweetness with the expectation that there will be a lot of calories coming. Because, foods with artificial sweeteners provide fewer calories than expected in the brain, the brain places a call to get more food.

Thus, when the sweet intake did not provide balanced energy for a certain period of time, the brain will improve the signal to increase the amount of calories consumed and you seemed to want to eat continuously.

Although Scientific American believes it is too early to fully apply these findings to humans, cases of obesity as a result of artificial sweeteners is getting stronger by the day.

Researchers also noted that this study is not to say that you're better off eating drinking regular soda, because they both were unhealthy. In a can of regular soda, contained the amount of sugar in excess of the daily requirement of sugar, even before you spend it.

However, experts believe there are several metabolic consequences when you start often consume artificial sweeteners.