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Artificial Sweeteners are between 200 and 600 times sweeter than ordinary sugar. This allows food manufacturers to use much less of the sweetener to get similar levels of sweetness. Since adding sugar adds calories without adding vitamins, fiber, or protein, eliminating these calories using a sugar substitute allows products such as diet sodas to be nearly calorie free. Switching from products with sugar to those with a sugar substitute should result in weight loss; however, research shows that the majority of people who use sugar substitutes experience a net weight gain.
Which of the following most helps to resolve the above paradox?
A) Most Americans prefer the taste of beverages with real sugar to those with sugar substitute.
B) Sugar substitutes cannot be used in many high-calorie, high-fat foods, such as hamburgers and french fries, which do not have any added sugar to replace.
C) Substituting a 2-liter bottle of soda that has sugar substitute for one that has real sugar would result in over 1000 fewer calories consumed.
D) Because sugar substitutes are so sweet, those people who consume them regularly become addicted to sweetness of all types, including sugar.
E) A reduced calorie diet is most effective in creating weight loss if it is combined with frequent exercise.
Artificial Sweeteners are between 200 and 600 times sweeter than ordinary sugar. This allows food manufacturers to use much less of the sweetener to get similar levels of sweetness. Since adding sugar adds calories without adding vitamins, fiber, or protein, eliminating these calories using a sugar substitute allows products such as diet sodas to be nearly calorie free. Switching from products with sugar to those with a sugar substitute should result in weight loss; however, research shows that the majority of people who use sugar substitutes experience a net weight gain.
Which of the following most helps to resolve the above paradox?
A) Most Americans prefer the taste of beverages with real sugar to those with sugar substitute.
B) Sugar substitutes cannot be used in many high-calorie, high-fat foods, such as hamburgers and french fries, which do not have any added sugar to replace.
C) Substituting a 2-liter bottle of soda that has sugar substitute for one that has real sugar would result in over 1000 fewer calories consumed.
D) Because sugar substitutes are so sweet, those people who consume them regularly become addicted to sweetness of all types, including sugar.
E) A reduced calorie diet is most effective in creating weight loss if it is combined with frequent exercise.
