14. You Add Artificial Flavorings
Squeeze bottles like Mio and Crystal Light are touted as a low-calorie way to flavor your water, but they’re usually just full of artificial colors, flavors, and sweeteners. That’s bad news since studies have shown that the high-intensity artificial sweetener sucralose, which is 1,000 times as sweet as table sugar, can confuse your sweetness receptors and cause you to overeat the next time you consume something that’s naturally sweetened. That sounds like one of the 50 Little Things Making You Fatter and Fatter.
