This is not a new idea. In 1995, the Program in Human Nutrition, School of Public Health at the University of Michigan stated that there is no evidence that the addition of an intense sweetener to a plain stimulus promotes appetite or results in increased food consumption during some later meal. They suggested that longer term studies need to be done.
Again in 2009, the Department of Foods and Nutrition at Purdue University performed studies about the substitution of non-nutritive sweetener for a nutritive sweetener generally elicits (or provokes) incomplete energy compensation, but evidence of long-term efficacy for weight management is not available.
Now, the Asian Food Information Centre has reported four studies that have been done for a longer period of time. These studies took place at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, and the University of Toronto. The information about the subjects of the University of Michigan study is actually reported by American Dietetic Association.
All of these studies conclude that neither the addition of aspartame nor the substitution of aspartame for sucrose increased overall hunger ratings or food intake.
So... enjoy your Equal or N'Joy, especially if you are diabetic or celiac as aspartame is gluten free.
If you want to do without aspartame, there is Splenda with sucralose. Sucralose is made using a multi-step process that starts with ordinary table sugar (sucrose) then replaces three hydrogen-oxygen groups on the sugar molecule with three chlorine atoms. This results in a stable sweetener that delivers a taste profile similar to sugar, but is calorie-free.
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