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Your diet soda is gaslighting your brain

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 27, 2025
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Hey suckers who thought switching to diet soda would help curb those cravings — science has some deliciously ironic news for you! Turns out your brain isn't falling for that zero-calorie sleight of hand. In fact, it's getting even hangrier about it.

Researchers at USC just published a study in Nature Metabolism showing that Sucralo…

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