Sugar-free cookies and other snacks with artificial sweeteners may seem like the perfect choice when trying to lose weight, but they can actually sabotage your diet. Watch this video with Dr. Keri Peterson to find out why.
If you are trying to lose weight artificial sweeteners are not going to help control your weight, in fact, studies have demonstrated that when you use artificial sweeteners, you can actually gain weight and this may seem counter intuitive, but the reason for this is that if your brain is creating sweets and you reach for that sugar-free cooking instead and eat that, your brain doesn't feel satisfied and you still have that craving for the sugar.
So then what happens? You may reach for a second cookie or even a third and you wind up over-indulging. Instead, just have that one sugar containing cookie, your brain feel satisfied and in the end you may wind up consuming less.
Keri Peterson, MD holds appointments at Lenox Hill Hospital and Mount Sinai Medical Center. She is a member of the American College of Physicians, the American Medical Association and is a medical contributor for Women’s Health magazine.
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