{"id":321326,"date":"2017-08-12T02:46:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T01:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/low-calorie-diet-drinks-and-foods-trick-the-brain-into-making-you-fatter-and-could-trigger-diabetes-study-claims\/"},"modified":"2017-08-12T02:46:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T01:46:41","slug":"low-calorie-diet-drinks-and-foods-trick-the-brain-into-making-you-fatter-and-could-trigger-diabetes-study-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/low-calorie-diet-drinks-and-foods-trick-the-brain-into-making-you-fatter-and-could-trigger-diabetes-study-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Low calorie diet drinks and foods \u2018trick the brain into making you fatter\u2019 and could trigger diabetes, study claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/living\/4219398\/low-calorie-diet-drinks-foods-fatter-diabetes\/\"><strong>The Sun<\/strong><\/a><br \/>August 11, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>DIET drinks and foods trick the brain into making you fatter and could even trigger diabetes, a study suggests.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The body has evolved to burn more calories if something tastes sweet because in nature sweeter substances contain more energy.<\/p>\n<p>But diet products that do not taste sweet confuse the brain into thinking there are fewer calories to burn than there are.<\/p>\n<p>This causes the body\u2019s metabolism to drop, storing up the products as fat, claim researchers at Yale University, US.<\/p>\n<p>Senior author Prof Dana Small said: \u201cA calorie is not a calorie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen sweet taste and energy are not matched, less energy is metabolised and inaccurate signals go to the brain. 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The body has evolved to burn more calories if something tastes sweet because in nature sweeter substances contain more energy. 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