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How can they cause weight gain when they contain no or a tiny amount of calories?
by cinntaile 5y ago
How can they cause weight gain when they contain no or a tiny amount of calories?
- Firmwarrior 5y agoThey don't satisfy your hunger or craving for sweets, so you end up eating more
- cinntaile 5y agoBut he compared it with a subjectively equal amount of sugar,so no additional food is eaten.
- hedora 5y agoThe involuntary part of your brain gets confused because it received an "I ate" signal from your mouth but not your stomach. It responds by panicking: lowered metabolism and increased appetite. Both effects have been shown separately. For instance, mice on fixed calorie diets become lethargic and gain weight if artificial sweeteners are added to their water.
- cinntaile 5y agoHas this been shown in humans? A lot of mice results don't replicate in humans.
- tsol 5y agoThey still cause insulin release, and a resultant hormonal response
- jimbob365 5y agoI don't think that's true. Here's a recent study disproving that: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29982723/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29982723/
- QuadmasterXLII 5y agoIn an extreme example, mood stabilizers such as Depakote strongly cause weight gain despite having no calories.