Sweeteners are not useful for losing weight, but rather make you gain weight.

If you use sweeteners instead of sugar to lose weight, you're simply wasting money, time, and your health. If anything, sweeteners can have the opposite effect: because they stimulate hunger, you ultimately risk gaining weight.

To put a definitive end to this issue, denying all the advertising claims in favor of sweeteners, there is one studio  of the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, recently published in the journal Nature Metabolism.

There has long been a suspicion that sweeteners, by altering food cravings and confusing the brain, could lead to compulsive eating behaviors (more food, less satiety, and therefore a greater risk of weight gain). But now this study unequivocally demonstrates that sucralose, a sweetener widely used in sweeteners (and also in carbonated drinks), influences appetite, increases food cravings, and therefore leads to overeating.

The study tested 75 Guests after drinking:

• water
• sugary drink
• drink with sucralose

The researchers measured:

• brain activity (with MRI)
• hunger hormones
• subjective sensation of appetite

The main results were these:

• il sucralose increased the activity of the hypothalamus, that is, the area of ​​the brain that regulates hunger
• in particular, increased the feeling of hunger, especially in people with obesity

Sucralose provides a  sweet taste without calories, but at the same time it confuses ideas due to the activity of the hypothalamus, That part of the brain that controls hunger and satiety. Thus, the sweetener has an appetite-increasing effect, and certainly encourages you to eat more.