Artificial sweeteners are like methadone. Methadone might be less worse for you than heroin, but it’s still something you should avoid if you can. Yes, mainlin

Artificial sweeteners are like methadone. Methadone might be less worse for you than heroin, but it’s still something you should avoid if you can. Yes, mainlining pure sugar all day is an awful habit and a fast path to an ugly death. Yes, kicking that habit with an artificial substitute can be effective. But it’s still a short-term solution. The food industry isn’t interested in you kicking any habits, though, just transitioning to another of their products. Unfortunately for us all no food is as magnetic to humans as sugar.