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Earlier this week, at a conference of the American Diabetes
Association, 2 interesting studies related to diet soda were presented.
Both reached similar conclusions Not only will diet soda NOT help you
lose weight, it may actually cause weight gain and diabetes!
Study #1 Diet Soda consumption is linked with increased waistline
Hundreds of participants were followed over an average course of 10
years. A direct correlation between diet soda consumption and weight
gain was established:
Diet soft drink users, as a group,
experienced 70 percent greater increases in waist circumference compared
with non-users. Frequent users, who said they consumed two or more diet
sodas a day, experienced waist circumference increases that were 500
percent greater than those of non-users. read more from Science Daily
Study #2 Aspartame consumption increases risk of diabetes
This study was conducted on 2 groups of mice. The poor things were
stuffed with fatty food and one group was given aspartame to boot. After
3 months, the latter group of mice showed higher levels of fasting
blood glucose than the former. Elevated levels of fasting glucose are a
potential early indicator of diabetes.
These results suggest that heavy
aspartame exposure might potentially directly contribute to increased
blood glucose levels, and thus contribute to the associations observed
between diet soda consumption and the risk of diabetes in humans
read more from Science Daily
Still sipping away at your Diet Sprite?
Need more evidence that drinking diet soft drinks is bad for you?
Consider this ever since diet soft drinks were introduced into the
market, obesity and diabetes rates in this country have skyrocketed.
Still need more convincing? Read this
What to do at the supermarket:
Weve said this a hundred times and well say it again. The fastest
way to see some real results with weight loss is to go cold turkey on
all beverages. Skip the the soft drink aisle, the juice aisle, and the
diet aisle. Learn to drink water. Preferably tap. Carbonated water is OK
too.
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