Is cutting out sugar a good thing if you want to lose weight? Well, you decide to do it anyway. No more sugar in coffee for a start - and what about ready meals and fast food? You're going to take a good look at the labels and bin anything that has any sugar in it. You're taking positive action and it feels good, but are you wasting your time?

Despite what you may think, refined sugar is not a food, it's a chemical. It's extracted from plants, which contain no fiber, no minerals, no proteins, no fats and no enzymes. It is made up of empty calories.

When you eat sugar, you put your body in a bit of a dilemma. In order to metabolize the sugar it has to borrow nutrients from other cells. When your brain gets the message that its reserves are being depleted, it sends out hunger signals. Your reaction is to come to its rescue - usually with some high-calorie food. The result is weight gain.

Having stopped taking sugar you may feel the need to have something sweet - you'd be unusual if you didn't. If you choose a sugar supplement like saccharin or aspartame you are making an error.

What has been puzzling scientists is that the obesity crisis has continued to grow despite a massive increase in the use of sugar substitutes.

Scientists have now discovered that far from helping weight loss, sugar substitutes could actually be the cause of weight gain!

At Perdue University scientists carried out experiments with animals - some were fed food containing natural sweeteners and others food with artificial sweeteners. The results were alarming. The animals that were fed artificial sweeteners actually gained weight. The reason this happened is that our/their bodies associate sweetness with food loaded with calories. When the body recognizes that the food containing artificial sweeteners is not loaded with calories, it compensates by sending out hunger signals and we eat more to make up the shortfall - the result is weight gain.

So what about sugar? The best thing to do is to reduce sugar intake gradually, but most importantly, avoid artificial sweeteners.

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