> One of the key things in the study is that all of the action is happening away from the tongue. This shows that there are circuits inducing our love for sugar

> One of the key things in the study is that all of the action is happening away from the tongue. This shows that there are circuits inducing our love for sugar, beyond our love for sweet tastes. This also helps explain why artificial sweeteners have not changed our consumption of sugar, since they fail to activate this new gut-brain circuit. Could this be (yet) another explanation of why people who use artificial sweeteners don’t control their weight or real sugar intake in the long run? Developing habits is quite hard for many people. Any advancement in handling sugar addiction (without other negative side effects) could prove to be a good thing for all humans (except the ones running corporations whose purpose is to create, maintain and increase such addictions).