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"Forget artificial sweeteners. Researchers are now developing new forms of real sugar, to deliver sweetness with fewer calories. But tricking our biology is no

"Forget artificial sweeteners. Researchers are now developing new forms of real sugar, to deliver sweetness with fewer calories. But tricking our biology is no easy feat." Sugar is already tricking our biology. It brought us a diabetes pandemic. It is weird to say that it is difficult to get worse, but looks inevitable if we are using scientists to create more sugar in place of fixing the issues the overconsumption of it already created.

thaumasiotes 6y ago
> Sugar is already tricking our biology. There's no trick involved. Sugar appears to be exactly what it is. You want to eat it because it's sugar; that's your biology functioning as intended.
- analog31 6y ago
  I think the trick was making it plentiful and cheap enough that our bodies functioning as intended would consume a toxic quantity.
- brnt 6y ago
  The ones pulling tricks is the food industry, putting so much of the stuff into everything.