HOW YOUR BRAIN RESPONDS WHEN YOU
DRINK CALORIES
Did you know that your brain perceives food intake differently depending
on whether it’s drunk or sipped as a sugary soft drink as distinct to when
solid food is actually chewed? OK, so
this requires some clarification.
A research study undertaken in an American University** provided
respondents with an additional 450 daily calories. The difference was that half the students had
a fizzy drink while half were given 450 calories of jelly beans. The findings revealed that the students who
ate the sweets compensated by unconsciously reducing their calorific intake
throughout the rest of the day to adjust.
Surprisingly though, the participants who had the soft drinks actually
increased their calorie intake.
According to the study findings, it would appear that the body
unconscious regulates to maintain food/calorie intake. So if you indulge in treat foods the body
will automatically refuse over-indulgence later to maintain its
equilibrium. This is known as ‘calorie
compensation’. Conversely, the body
doesn’t registered the high calorific average of a sugary drink in the same way
as it does with food that’s been chewed.
There’s no published explanation as to why this might be. One theory is that fluid is absorbed more
quickly than solids and another reason may be that the brain sees chewing as a
distinctly different process entirely than drinking.
Of course fizzy soft drinks we now know contain astonishingly high
quantities of sugar and so are a damaging source of weight gain in the diets of
those who partake of them on a regular basis.
There are other negative connotations too as any Dentist will
attest.
You may have seen wide ranging internet sources relating that people
who drink zero calorie and diet soft drinks gain more weight. This is because these websites are not looking
at conclusive and wide ranging research.
They are probably more or less all recycling sensationalist and alarmist
information from the results of two very narrow and inconclusive research
projects undertaken on rats.
However,
that’s not to say that drinkers of diet colas etc. don’t gain weight over time
as it’s likely that they have other bad snacking habits, the impact of which
they are trying to reduce by resorting to zero calorie drinks. It is very likely that research would find
that if these same people switched to consuming only water that they may still
gain weight over time unless they were following a wholefood, nutritionally
balanced diet.
**Reference: Study carried out
by Purdue University : Indiana
: USA
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