The fact that the consumption of sweet drinks and other sweets provokes overeating is known to our readers. Today, we will introduce the results of a long-term study where deliberately examined the results of replacing sugar with sweeteners.
For 10 weeks, two groups of fat women and men (average BMI 28) were fed in “free mode” drinks and food with sweeteners instead of shugar. In the group consuming the sugar, the quantity amounted to about 150g a day, most of them from drinks.
After 10 weeks the people in the group who consumed sweet food and drinks has significantly increased their total energy consumption (average 380 kcal/d) and sugar (28% of daily calories). The group who used sweeteners significantly reduced the amount of sugar in food, and average specific calorie content of the food. Consumers of sugar have gained a lot of weight averaging 1.6 kg and those who ate sweeteners have lost 1 kg. There was also a remarkable difference in blood pressure (in accordance with the weight change in the first group +4 mm, the second -3 mm) weight change Graph quite “boring” — some slowly gaining weight, the other was slowly losing:
More funny chart patterns of consumption — it is not clear why, but drinking sweet/unsweetened water clearly influenced the choice of the rest of the food:
Sugary drinks, as can be seen, compounded by the desire to “eat sweet” and savory, on the contrary, another group reduced the desire.
The conclusion of the authors is quite obvious – for fat people drinking sweet drinks is bad, it leads to weight gain and other negative consequences. The replacement of sugar with sweeteners is not simply eliminating these effects but stimulates the fat people to eat less and choose less nutritious food, causing weight loss and other positive changes.
We certainly join with the researchers’ conclusions. If people can’t do without the sweet taste, then obviously the sweetener is an adequate way to reduce the calorie content, and generally avoid other bad consequences of eating sugar. Particularly interesting seem the fact that getting less sugar from drinks, fat people and other food spontaneously begins to look for him less active and gradually move on to food with lower energy density – that is, start to eat more but less calorie food.
So if you don’t manage to force yourself to drink unsweetened coffee or eat unsweetened cereal — try modern sweeteners. Read the review of modern sweeteners if you have not decided on the choice. For many people they helped on the road to health. Well, if you learn to do without sweet taste — even better.
