Being in my mid-30's I have to work harder to stay fit and trim than I used to in my 20's. Having a husband I wish to keep enthralled, I have no desire to add pounds and inches where they aren't welcome. This is especially the case because I had to work hard to regain my figure after childbirth while going to school.
Now, you might logically say that vaping something sweet, particularly something utterly non-caloric couldn't possibly make me fat. You might say it is simple physics that you can't gain weight from non-existent calories. And you would be right in the very specific sense of weight gain while vaping; but you would be wrong about the larger picture.
Human beings are extremely complex creatures in practically every imaginable respect. There are laws of unintended consequences that come to bear because so often we act on the basis of limited knowledge.
Just consider for a moment that the physicians of 1850 considered themselves to be at the pinnacle of medical science; and yet how laughable many of their conceptions seem in light of knowledge acquired later.
It is funny how we never seem to learn this lesson. We never put ourselves in the shoes of someone 50 or 100 years in the future and wonder what they will have learned. So we always consider ourselves wise.
Here is something you likely did not know: just the taste of sweetness will lead to metabolic changes that result in other dietary choices that will result in weight gain.
Most recently, this fact was discussed in a study that showed drinking zero calorie diet soda increased the risk of weight gain.(1)
But this knowledge is hardly new. Discussing female users of artificial sweeteners, a 2004 study of sponsored by the American Cancer Society found that "Users were significantly more likely than nonusers to gain weight, regardless of initial weight."(2)
Describing a 2007 Purdue study, Scientific American noted that: "Typically, they say, the taste buds, sensing something sweet, signal the brain to prep the digestive system to gear up for a caloric onslaught; when the expected sugar jolt (extra calories) fails to materialize, the body gets rattled and has trouble bouncing back and regulating appetite when other food is available."(3)
An article in the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine confirms this assessment: "Sweetness decoupled from caloric content offers partial, but not complete, activation of the food reward pathways. Activation of the hedonic component may contribute to increased appetite. Animals seek food to satisfy the inherent craving for sweetness, even in the absence of energy need. Lack of complete satisfaction, likely because of the failure to activate the postingestive component, further fuels the food seeking behavior."(4)
So, to make a very long story that has a decade of evidence behind it short, I do not use sweet e-liquids because they WILL make me fat.
(1) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/29/diet-soda-weight-gain_n_886409.html
(2) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0091743586900897
(3) http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=artificial-sweetener-linked-weight-gain
(4) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892765/
Now, you might logically say that vaping something sweet, particularly something utterly non-caloric couldn't possibly make me fat. You might say it is simple physics that you can't gain weight from non-existent calories. And you would be right in the very specific sense of weight gain while vaping; but you would be wrong about the larger picture.
Human beings are extremely complex creatures in practically every imaginable respect. There are laws of unintended consequences that come to bear because so often we act on the basis of limited knowledge.
Just consider for a moment that the physicians of 1850 considered themselves to be at the pinnacle of medical science; and yet how laughable many of their conceptions seem in light of knowledge acquired later.
It is funny how we never seem to learn this lesson. We never put ourselves in the shoes of someone 50 or 100 years in the future and wonder what they will have learned. So we always consider ourselves wise.
Here is something you likely did not know: just the taste of sweetness will lead to metabolic changes that result in other dietary choices that will result in weight gain.
Most recently, this fact was discussed in a study that showed drinking zero calorie diet soda increased the risk of weight gain.(1)
But this knowledge is hardly new. Discussing female users of artificial sweeteners, a 2004 study of sponsored by the American Cancer Society found that "Users were significantly more likely than nonusers to gain weight, regardless of initial weight."(2)
Describing a 2007 Purdue study, Scientific American noted that: "Typically, they say, the taste buds, sensing something sweet, signal the brain to prep the digestive system to gear up for a caloric onslaught; when the expected sugar jolt (extra calories) fails to materialize, the body gets rattled and has trouble bouncing back and regulating appetite when other food is available."(3)
An article in the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine confirms this assessment: "Sweetness decoupled from caloric content offers partial, but not complete, activation of the food reward pathways. Activation of the hedonic component may contribute to increased appetite. Animals seek food to satisfy the inherent craving for sweetness, even in the absence of energy need. Lack of complete satisfaction, likely because of the failure to activate the postingestive component, further fuels the food seeking behavior."(4)
So, to make a very long story that has a decade of evidence behind it short, I do not use sweet e-liquids because they WILL make me fat.
(1) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/29/diet-soda-weight-gain_n_886409.html
(2) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0091743586900897
(3) http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=artificial-sweetener-linked-weight-gain
(4) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892765/
