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Are Artificial Sweeteners Really Bad For You?

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Sweet Foods Are Playing Tricks on Your Body

Our bodies are being tricked, that we're no longer associating sweet foods with high calory foods. So if you eat something that actually is sweet and has calories, you're ging to eat more of it than you wouldo before. Your brain's not used to saying, i've got enough calories from this. I can stop eating it now, right? Playing tricks on your body. Ye. And plus, also, these things that are 305 hundred seven thousand times sweeter than ar which is what our body is used to as is some form of sugar,. A t the the sensation of sweetness is amplified, and so it kind of mutes sweetness in other things, like fruit

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