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I think any good study has to consider habitual use. Spiking blood sugar in false anticipation once means nothing. How about daily? The body learns from its mis

I think any good study has to consider habitual use. Spiking blood sugar in false anticipation once means nothing. How about daily? The body learns from its mistakes. For me, I could never drink diet pop, but when I discovered Coke Zero it was amazing. Finally I could cut my sugar intake. Tastes delicious with a meal, or even after a meal. Over time, I noticed if I've been fasting a lot of hours and then consume one - it won't taste good at all. My body seems to have become keenly aware that it is not contributing a single calorie of the energy it is dying for.

tremon 6y ago
The body learns from its mistakes. Are you sure about that? If the body could truly learn on such fast turnaround times, we wouldn't have an obesity epidemic, I think.
- beagle3 6y ago
  The body learns associations. There are reproducible experiments with rats who develop a liking for chalk water after sugar is added to it; and it takes them a couple of weeks to stop liking it when sugar is out. There are some experiments showing the same is true with humans, with a time constant of 3-6 weeks. From memory, relevant papers are from Michel cabanac. Seth Robert’s “what makes food fattening” is a great overview of related results, whether or nit you agree with his take.