But tasted where ? do we have any knowledge what happens when the tongue measures one level of sweetness and the gut another ?
And don't the case of the gastric bypass implies that if the gut senses less sugar(either because of less sensors, or because of less sugar) , we get positive results ?
>> no substitute for eating healthy.. than fix through science.
Currently that's good health advice, i agree.
Given that fact, we can speculate that sweet things that aren't absorbed might be more harmful than ones that are absorbed, as they have a chance to activate taste buds all the way through the gut as they go past, rather than just the earlier ones.
Hopefully the guys at DouxMatok are think about this and optimizing their sweetener to quickly dissolve in the gut.
And sure, this definetly needs full animal testing before claiming things about it.
It would be easy to test that real solution by comparing diets from a place where they don't eat as much sugar.
That being said, there is a lot of easy research that never happens. There are a lot of reasons. Funding is difficult to get, and it's hard to get funding to research things that are "obvious". Furthermore, there are a limited number of scientists -- they have to choose what they are going to research.
Honestly, my biggest take away from the research is that there is no substitute for eating healthy. For instance, vitamin supplements don't appear to convey the same health benefits as consuming the vitamins in foods in which they naturally occur. There are a lot of reasons for this, but what my take away was that it is easier to eat a balanced diet, than it is to eat a poor diet and then fix it through science. Same goes for health in general really -- it's better to take steps to stay healthy, than it is to lose your health and try to get it back.