The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
So now, there's an artificial sweetener that's coupled with an actual increase in blood glucose. The natural world scenario where this would happen would be drinking a diet soda which contains no calories, and therefore, would not increase blood glucose, but is sweet, with a food that increases blood glucose. And when that happens, what you're essentially doing, is tapping into the dopamine system.
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consuming more of these artificial sweeteners, or consuming them for a longer period of time, can start to tap into the dopamine system, and lead us to seek out or consume more of these artificial sweeteners.