This is back from December so forgive me if someone already posted this.
Artificial sweeteners not a “get out of bad habits free†card
But then, we knew that already, right?
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- Hunter Gatherer
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"You've been reading about arctic explorers," I accused him. "If a man's starving he'll eat anything, but when he's just ordinarily hungry he doesn't want to clutter up his stomach with a lot of candy."
Dashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett
Wow. That part of that that really got me was:
“[T]he absolute preference for taste sweetness may lead to a re-ordering in the hierarchy of potentially addictive stimuli, with sweetened diets. . . taking precedence over cocaine and possibly other drugs of abuse.â€
Digest that for a moment. Sweetness beats out coke.
Yikes
“[T]he absolute preference for taste sweetness may lead to a re-ordering in the hierarchy of potentially addictive stimuli, with sweetened diets. . . taking precedence over cocaine and possibly other drugs of abuse.â€
Digest that for a moment. Sweetness beats out coke.
Yikes
Thanks for the great link, HG. Nice to see some evidence for my intuition!
From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola
I guess that's why coke was able to get rid of the cokeDigest that for a moment. Sweetness beats out coke
From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola
ReinhardCoca-Cola did once contain an estimated nine milligrams of cocaine per glass, but in 1903 it was removed.
- Hunter Gatherer
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I liked her comment
I also thought it was cool that our taste-buds are so much more effective at picking out bitter than sweet.
And I thought that it was funny that the authors of the paper referred to "limited tolerance for complex tastes" as your tastes being in an "infantile state." Probably a good description, but not very flattering.If we constantly hammer our taste buds with simplistic, blunt-instrument flavours, we don’t develop the ability to appreciate the subtler flavours that occur in the natural world.
The sad irony, of course, is that the natural-world flavours are infinitely more interesting. Developing sensitivity to real-world flavours actually makes you a more careful, nuanced eater who focuses on food quality, and ultimately enjoys food more. After all, be honest: have you really savoured the bouquet of cheezies? If you really focused on the scent and taste notes of Rock Star drink, or Twizzlers, you wouldn’t touch the $#!^ because you’d start to notice the waxy mouth feel or the chemical aftertaste. But if I handed you a $10 Godiva truffle, you’d certainly spend a little quality time with that bad boy before snarfing it down.
I also thought it was cool that our taste-buds are so much more effective at picking out bitter than sweet.
"You've been reading about arctic explorers," I accused him. "If a man's starving he'll eat anything, but when he's just ordinarily hungry he doesn't want to clutter up his stomach with a lot of candy."
Dashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett