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Re:Self-control need a boost? Gargle sugar water, researcher... by vidarh on Friday November 09, 2012 @10:35PM (#4765829)
That consuming small amounts of sugar regularly boosts motivation and willpower has been known for a long time, but as the article says the assumption has been that this is due to the actual intake of sugar. What they are saying is that they think their results may show that simply tasting the sugar is sufficient.

(But I wonder if they controlled for whatever amounts of sugar subjects might inadvertently get in them anyway while gargling)

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Re:Self-control need a boost? Gargle sugar water, researcher... by enginous on Saturday November 10, 2012 @05:11AM (#4766395)
"Because participants did not ingest the glucose, they could not have absorbed a significant amount of it into their bloodstream. Moreover, it takes glucose 10 to 15 min to enter the brain after ingestion (Zourek, Jankovec, & Hykova, 2011)."
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