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Usefulness of artificial sweeteners for body weight control
Marie-Pierre St-Onge1, Steven B Heymsfield
1Obesity Research Center, St-Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University, New York, NY 10025, USA.
Nutrition Reviews
|August 9, 2003
Abstract:
Artificial sweeteners provide lower calorie food products but have been thought to increase appetite and perhaps lead to increased body weight compared with high-sucrose foods. A recent trial demonstrated that subjects supplementing their diets with artificially sweetened foods lost weight, whereas those consuming high-sucrose foods gained weight. This review sheds some light on the controversy regarding the effects of artificial sweeteners in body weight control.