SYDNEY: Although artificial sweeteners provide the taste people expect from foods, the sugar replacement chemicals also make the brain increase hunger because it thinks not enough food has been consumed for energy.
Now, a new study done in fruit flies and mice offers insights into how zero-calorie sweeteners may actually increase appetite.
"Researchers in the new study say, however, that while reduction of sugar consumption can be healthy so replacing real sugar with something else should be beneficial the effects of using chemicals in unhealthy foods rather than replacing sugar-sweetened foods with those carrying natural sugar had not previously been explored".
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