In my lived, anecdotal experience: I grew up eating “normal” foods and drinking non-diet soda. I am an average-sized guy. I fell in love with a sweetheart of

In my lived, anecdotal experience: I grew up eating “normal” foods and drinking non-diet soda. I am an average-sized guy. I fell in love with a sweetheart of a woman that was around 300lbs. I married her. She’s now less than half that. I eat what she eats. Diet, sugar-free everything. After a few years of tolerating it, I prefer it. Normal soda tastes like cough syrup, to me. Cake and donuts make me nauseated. I don’t crave sugar, at all. Also, ketchup has a shit ton of sugar in it, for the record. (I know this, because we use sugar-free ketchup.) Do with this anecdotal informaton what you will; but as someone who has fully transitioned to artificial sweeteners - I can’t say that my lived experience lines up with your claims.