Artificial Sweeteners Make You Fat?

Do artificial sweeteners make you fat? Artificial sweeteners like aspartame, sucralose or saccharin are low to zero cal sugar replacements or "substitutes". The most often asked questions concerning them are: Do they make you hungry? Do they make you gain weight? Do they make me fat?

So let's have a look at these.

As I mention in the video, here is the research behind what I say:

- Increased hunger

Canty DJ, Chan MM. Effects of consumption of caloric vs noncaloric sweet drinks on indices of hunger and food consumption in normal adults. Am J Clin Nutr 1991;53:1159--64

Tordoff MG, Alleva AM. Effect of drinking soda sweetened with aspartame or high-fructose corn syrup on food intake and body weight. AmJ Clin Nutr. 1990 Jun; 51(6): 963-9

Mattes, RD. Interaction between the energy content and sensory properties of foods. In: Birch, G & Campbell-Platt, G, , eds. Synergy. Hampshire, United Kingdom: Intercept, Ltd, 1994:39--51

http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/53/5/1159
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/51/6/963

- Weight gain

Wooley OW, Wooley SC, Dunham RB. Can calories be perceived and do they affect hunger in obese and nonobese humans? J Comp Physiol Psychol 1972;80:250--8

Mattes RD. Effects of aspartame and sucrose on hunger and energy intake in humans. Physiol Behav. 1990 Jun;47(6):1037-44.

http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/com/80/2/250/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2395908

A good general overview of the scientific literature concerning artificial sweeteners can be found in

Mattes RD, Popkin BM. Nonnutritive sweetener consumption in humans: effects on appetite and food intake and their putative mechanisms. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 89, No. 1, 1-14

http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/89/1/1?ijkey=94d4da7d04914a72dfd502a0999...

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[HealthRanger7]

Good info!

[Evilcyber]

@HealthRanger7 Glad you found it helpful! :)

[pistolcucapse]

you look very tired in these videos, evil! do you stay awake at night to do them? haha joking

will you be doing a video about the dangers of using artificial sweeteners, if there are any?

[Evilcyber]

@pistolcucapse You get an extra points for caring about my health! ;)

Seriously: I'm looking into how I can address that in a video, but it might be a bit lengthy and tiresome.

[0wenSlattery]

Evil you are like a celebrity, you have different cloths every time you are on camera. Great video!

[Evilcyber]

@0wenSlattery Well, then there's at least one tiny bit celebrity about me ;)

[D4ntesword]

I really like your videos. You seem a very commited and responsible person, and I'm sure that if we had more people like you the world would be completely different.

Keep up the great work.

[06RPB]

funny voice

[FragenAnsLeben]

Like that. Correkt and easily presented information.

[kokiafans]

i have this L-Men sixpack product. it has aspartam, n thermoabs formula for burning fat faster to get sixpack. dunno how it can affect my body tho.

nice video evil...

[rockbay79]

Very interesting!

[kurdysj]

Finally! Unbiased view on diet products. Usually its just fat people saying diet coke is making them obese.

[BeastofEire]

I usually keep it natural but thanks for clarifying evil :)