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Hey, thanks. Would you mind linking to the actual studies so I can read them? The "sugar-water + food = lost weight" bit is especially striking...

• mast 15y ago
  Not sure if this is the study previously mentioned, but it seems appropriate: http://professional.diabetes.org/Abstracts_Display.aspx?TYP=1&CID=50748 http://professional.diabetes.org/Abstracts_Display.aspx?TYP=...
• sambeau 15y ago
  Original academic sources: Fowler SP, Williams K, Resendez RG, Hunt KJ, Hazuda HP, Stern MP. Fueling the obesity epidemic? Artificially sweetened beverage use and long-term weight gain Obesity (Silver Spring) 2008 Aug;16(8):1894-1900. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18535548 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18535548 http://www.uthscsa.edu/hscnews/singleformat.asp?newID=3872 http://www.uthscsa.edu/hscnews/singleformat.asp?newID=3872 here's some pop-sci versions: http://www.fastcompany.com/1764156/diet-coke-is-why-youre-fat http://www.fastcompany.com/1764156/diet-coke-is-why-youre-fa... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2009055/Why-guzzling-diet-drink-make-fatter--trigger-appetite.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2009055/Why-guzzli... I'm still looking for the study on rats. I'll keep looking. I'm sure I bookmarked it somewhere…
  • JanezStupar 15y ago
    On veganism... I only know of one person who was full-stop vegan for more than 10 years. And even he had major health issues, due to absorption problems of some nutrients. He found a source of said nutrients that works for him. Everybody else returned to a balanced diet. I do understand that some people can function on purely vegan diet. However most do not.
  • sandGorgon 15y ago
    could you comment on this then - http://www.ajcn.org/content/82/5/1011.abstract http://www.ajcn.org/content/82/5/1011.abstract P.S. I'm genuinely asking, most of my knowledge is borrowed from Leangains
    • sambeau 15y ago
      Interesting — I hadn't seen that. This shows that what is going on here may be more complex than first thought. (Maybe it is just a Pavlovian response.) It doesn't change the evidence that people and rats put on weight when drinking diet drinks – it shows that the reason why is still unclear. <side note> I do worry how many medical papers are based on tiny samples. 5 seems very small to me (when I was doing drug research 100 was a small sample). </side note>
• sambeau 15y ago
  These are interesting, too: This is interesting but on a different topic: calories: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC506782/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC506782/ This is about salt: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=its-time-to-end-the-war-on-salt http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=its-time-to... This on dairy products: http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v64/n6/abs/ejcn201045a.html http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v64/n6/abs/ejcn201045a.ht... This is an interesting account of veganism: http://voraciouseats.com/2010/11/19/a-vegan-no-more/ http://voraciouseats.com/2010/11/19/a-vegan-no-more/ And another interesting article on corn-syrup: http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/ http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/