Weight Loss Tips - It’s Not Sugar, You Can’t Fool Your Body!
By Henry John | November 11, 2008
After much deliberation you decide that it's time you lost some weight. You've looked at your current diet and decided that you want to make some changes. The first to go is sugar. No more sugar in your coffee, and from now on you're going to examine every packet for any sign of sugar. You are convinced that this will do the trick!
Are you right about sugar? The answer is yes...and no. What do you think sugar is? Actually, it's a chemical not a food. Although it comes from plants, it has no fiber, no carbohydrate, no protein and no enzymes. It is totally 'empty'. It only has empty calories.
What happens when you eat sugar? Your body borrows vital nutrients from healthy cells to metabolize this incomplete food. It raises your insulin level and the signals the brain receives when this happens are often interpreted as hunger signals. Likely as not you'll reward these signals with more high-calorie food - usually containing sugar.
Having stopped taking sugar you may feel the need to have something sweet - you'd be unusual if you didn't. If you choose a sugar supplement like saccharin or aspartame you are making an error.
Despite a huge increase in the use of sugar substitutes, there has been no end to the obesity crisis, in fact it's got worse. This has been puzzling scientists.
Scientists have now discovered that far from helping weight loss, sugar substitutes could actually be the cause of weight gain!
Experiments were carried out with animals where over time, some were fed food containing natural sweeteners and others food containing artificial sweeteners. What was discovered was that our bodies associate sweetness with food full of calories. In the case of the animals who were fed artificial sweeteners their bodies were not fooled by the artificial sweeteners! To make up for the lack of sweet calories they continued to eat to try and make up the shortfall - the result was weight gain.
You can't fool your body! The interesting thing about this experiment is that it could have highlighted one of the main reasons why we continue to put on weight despite eliminating sugar from our diet. Clearly to replace sugar with artificial sweeteners makes things a whole lot worse!
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