Speaking of ignorance, after all this time, we don’t understand the effects of artificial sweeteners. Excellent health journalism by Jill Adams. The Shangri-La Diet shows we didn’t understand the effects of sugar. (Universally believed to be fattening, even by Gary Taubes, it turns out to be extremely slimming under some conditions.) Which we have been eating even longer.
Thanks to Dave Lull and Andy Pattantyus.
Based on SLD, I would expect a 0 cal drink to suppress appetite if taken within a two hour window, but to increase appetite if taken with food (though it should be better than a regular soft drink). Or is there a reason that flavor with no calories, wouldn’t break the flavor-calorie connection as well as calories with no flavor?
But then by the same logic, I would have expected the rats on the glucose sweetened yogurt to gain a little more weight than the other rats because they had the same flavor with a few more calories. Or perhaps the artificial sweet ends up not being “invisible” in the way sugar water sweet is?
From what I have heard, the data is all over the map, and why should each sweetener have the same effects? They don’t even taste the same, and how the body handles them is not considered.