Sweetener scrutiny: Are sugar substitutes a helpful tool or an ineffective crutch?
The rats in the West Lafayette, Ind., laboratory of Susan Swithers, PhD, don’t lose weight when they eat artificially sweetened food. They eat more, and gain more. “Rather than these kind of products making it automatically easier to lose weight, they might make it automatically harder,” said Dr. Swithers, a Purdue University associate professor of psychological sciences.
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