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303elliott t1_iy6ck9m wrote

There are a lot of conflicting studies, many of which have their own flaws. As far as I can tell, we don't have any fully accepted theories. The best I could find was a phenomena known as compensation, where people are "ingesting calories later to compensate for energy deficit caused by [artificial sweeteners]". Basically, you trick your body into thinking it's going to get a lot of sugar, and then you don't give it any, so it sends messages to your brain that it's still hungry for sugar, leading you to eat more than you would have if you drank a soda.

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UnadvertisedAndroid t1_iy6qd33 wrote

I believe this because whenever I drank diet sodas back when I drank a lot of soda, I'd always get hungry right after. Personally I was diet agnostic, I never specified it when ordering a soda, but also didn't care if I accidentally got it. Some of my family drank diet exclusively, and that's where I noticed when I drank a diet soda I'd always get hungry shortly after.

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