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maia comments on [LINK] Motivational Versus Metabolic Effects of Carbohydrates on Self-Control - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: NancyLebovitz 16 September 2012 04:57AM

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Comment author: maia 16 September 2012 08:48:33PM 0 points [-]

Very interesting! This seems to suggest that sugar substitutes might do the same, though.

There is a study that actually compared sugar substitute ingesting people to sugar ingesting people. The people who ate sugar showed more rational behavior. >_> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/18315798/ but maybe this is different from self control.

Comment author: roland 07 November 2012 04:57:49PM 1 point [-]

No, sugar substitutes were not triggering the dopamine release, so they don't work.