There is some speculation — largely unconfirmed, as of yet — that diet sodas have
subtle effects on insulin and blood - sugar levels that trigger hunger and food cravings and influence how (and what) you eat.
Not exact matches
Nevertheless, the more
subtle effects on body size that we observe in Drosophila body size at 25 °C may be because the level of GBP expressed is within the range where it begins to suppress growth, even if the
effects in
insulin secretion are below our level of detection.
There was no
effect on the
insulin sensitivity of cells, and hence that rules out a more
subtle long term reduction in
insulin levels.