date:Dec 29, 2012
A new study suggests that saccharin and aspartame cause a greater weight gain than sugar, even with the same intake of calories.
The study was led by Fernanda de Matos Feija of the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University do Rio Grande do Sul, Ramiro Barcelos in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Researchers gave rats plain yogurt sweetened with aspartame, saccharin, or sugar, plus their regular diet, for 12 weeks.
Rats that ate the aspartame- or saccharin-sweetened yogurt gained more weight than th