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"Low-calorie diet foods might fool the taste buds, but not the brain. At Duke University Medical Center, a team led by Ivan E. de Araujo studied mice that lacked functioning taste receptors. When offered a choice between a sugar solution and water, these mice eventually preferred the sugary drink, despite their inability to taste sweetness. But if the sweet drink was instead calorie-free (containing the artificial sweetener sucralose), the taste-blind mice, unlike regular mice, didn't choose it over water. De Araujo says that pleasure-processing areas of the brain respond to calories independent of taste. Though relevance for humans isn't clear, he says, other studies \\\"suggest that diets based on artificial sweeteners might lead to overconsumption of calories from other sources and decreased metabolic rate,\\\" and these behaviors may be the body's attempts to compensate for the lack of anticipated rewarding brain stimulation."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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