Diet drinks and food actually trigger weight gain and diabetes, says new study

Diet drinks or foods may actually promote weight gain and trigger diabetes because the brain misreads the number of calories present and reduces metabolism, a new study suggests. Researchers at Yale University in the US discovered that the body stops burning energy from food if there is a ‘mismatch’ between food sweetness and calories. In nature, sweetness signals energy and the greater the sweetness the more calories are available, so the brain has evolved to expect the two to come...