Artificial Sweetners can make you Fat?

Funny thing... Researchers recently fed a steady diet of sugar substitutes to lab rats and discovered that the rats were hungrier and gained more weight than rats who ate 'regular' sugars. Why? It seems the artificial sweetners confuse the body--sweet tastes are evidently associated with calories consumed. If we eat something sweet that provides no calories, that association is 'broken' so our confused bodies seek more food. Likewise, since they didn't have the typical metabolic increase after eating a meal, they burned fewer calories. So just a thought for you as you reach for a "Diet" drink! See, it's not all boring economics here...!