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Re:Counting Calories Is Not the Key to Weight Loss, New Stud... by btilly on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @02:05PM (#16423012)
Apparently the artificial sweeteners do something to your body by tricking it into thinking it's getting sugar...

Specifically what happens is that your brain is supposed to taste sugar, and learn to shut off your appetite when it has received enough. But artificial sweeteners teach your brain to ignore that signal because you get what tastes like sugar without getting sugar. So whatever sugary things you eat, you will eat more than you otherwise would without feeling satiated.

Re:Counting Calories Is Not the Key to Weight Loss, New Stud... by cornholio on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @02:16PM (#16423147)
>whatever sugary things you eat, you will eat more than you otherwise would without feeling satiated

There is no scientific merit to this frequent claim. [1]

In fact, a comparative study on dieters using diet soda versus water shown that the water group lost less mass, hypothetically because they were feeling hungrier and less satisfied with their diet, thus more likely to succumb to sugary foods.

[1] Rogers, Peter J. "The role of low-calorie sweeteners in the prevention and management of overweight and obesity: evidence v. conjecture," Proceedings of the Nutrition Society

Re:Counting Calories Is Not the Key to Weight Loss, New Stud... by btilly on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @02:25PM (#16423261)
Huh. I made the claim based on having seen it in many places. But Google showed it to be less certain than my memory said it was.

Thanks for the correction. I'll try not to repeat this one blindly in the future.

Re:Counting Calories Is Not the Key to Weight Loss, New Stud... by bitwize on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @03:41PM (#16423987)
The primary place I heard it was Hackernews broscience. Till now I even belueved it.
Re:Counting Calories Is Not the Key to Weight Loss, New Stud... by criddell on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @02:20PM (#16423206)
Is this true?

It sounds a little like gym-science.