Study: Artificial sweeteners may cause humans to eat more

A new study published in Cell Metabolism suggests that artificial sweeteners replicate a starvation state in the brain causing some organisms to eat more food The study commissioned by researchers from the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Center and the Garvan Institute of Medical Research used fruit flies and synthetic sweetener sucralose Flies fed the sugar-free diet for five or more days consumed 30 percent more calories than those on sugar