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Sugar-sweetened beverages suppress the body's stress response

Drinking sugar-sweetened beverages can suppress the hormone cortisol and stress responses in the brain, but diet beverages sweetened with aspartame do not have the same effect, according to a new study published in the Endocrine ...

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You can't fool the human body when it comes to carbs

(Medical Xpress)—That lack of 'kick' you feel when drinking diet beverages has a scientific basis: it seems the mouth is able to detect the presence or absence of carbohydrate even when a liquid tastes and smells identical ...

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