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Nelek17-May-23 9:46
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NewsWhy Google's new .zip domain is so dangerous Pin
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NewsWHO advises not to use non-sugar sweeteners for weight control in newly released guideline Pin
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trønderen17-May-23 7:54 
Note that beer is more than twice as fattening as suggested by the calories indicated on the can: It makes you crave for huge amounts of fat, salty and/or sugary snacks to go with it.

I don't know the details of this study, but it seems to suggest that these sweetening chemicals have effects not only on your taste buds, but in other ways as well. What if it reduces your metabolism? Or reduces your level of physical activity so that your muscles burn less calories, not needing as much energy? What if it purely psychological: When you stick to artificially sweetened soft drinks, you are more careless about other calorie-rich foods, your calorie budget "can afford it" thanks to the non-calorie drinks?

From what I have read about this study, the essential observation is that there is very little (inverse) correlation between obesity and consumption of artificially sweetened drinks(/food). Groups where zero-calorie drinks at dominating do not have any less obesity than in groups where sweetening with sugar is the rule. Despite the fact that artificial sweeteners have zero calories, those enjoying them find other ways of keeping their body weight up, ways that are not found by those favoring natural sugar.

Like table salt: It has zero calories, and you will never eat so much of it that your body weight goes up from the salt itself, but it could make you drink so much extra water that your weight goes up anyway. Without the salt, you would have been less thirsty.

I got the impression that the study essentially makes an observation: People are just as fat with artificial sweeteners as they are with sugar. You may of course argue that those using artificial sweeteners would have been significantly fatter than they are, and fatter than the sugar eaters, if they went back to sugar. That those using the artificial stuff are doing so because they need to. If that is right, an interesting study would be to search for the factors making some people fatter than others from sugar, and the psychological mechanisms leading those to switch to artificial sweeteners in a much higher degree than the sugar eaters.
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Nelek17-May-23 8:11
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NewsMicrosoft is able to look inside your password protected zip files Pin
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NewsWatch out, Google might delete your old Gmail account if you aren’t careful Pin
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