No, I wouldn’t think so - it’s quite hard to design a robust study around that though
If there were proper controls on sweetening packaged drinks you’d expect total consumption to decrease significantly - the level of sugar or sugar substitutes is only palatable because people’s tastes have adapted in a way that would rarely, if ever, occur if people just had access to a spoon and a bag of sugar
There’s like a hundred years of food science devoted to figuring out how to maximise sugar and fat in products without making them taste disgusting
These drinks have like 25-50 grams of sugar per serve. Caffeine might not kill ya but diabetes sure can.
They make sugar free energy drinks
Sugar substitutes still fuck up the insulin response over the long term, unfortunately
Worse than soda (Which they can buy)?
No, I wouldn’t think so - it’s quite hard to design a robust study around that though
If there were proper controls on sweetening packaged drinks you’d expect total consumption to decrease significantly - the level of sugar or sugar substitutes is only palatable because people’s tastes have adapted in a way that would rarely, if ever, occur if people just had access to a spoon and a bag of sugar
There’s like a hundred years of food science devoted to figuring out how to maximise sugar and fat in products without making them taste disgusting
then surely it’d be a ban on sugar beverages, not ‘energy drinks’