The Diet Logs

Diet soda may not be so good for helping those who want to lose weight, or for those who want to avoid extra calories in the soda they drink.

Research is showing that the artificial sweeteners that are in diet sodas may confuse the body’s ability to determine how many calories you have had, and as a result, you may end up eating more than you should.  In a study involving rats, evidence showed that rats that were fed artificial sugar actually gained more weight than the rats that did not eat the fake sugar.

It is also possible that people looking to lose weight and so drink diet soda, may believe that they can eat more of what they want since thy cut back on calories in their drink.   It’s kind of like saying, I can eat that cheeseburger as long as I have a diet coke.  But that is not going to help a person lose weight.  The diet coke is not a “pass” to eat more or eat unhealthy.

Soda offers little to nothing in nutrients for you.  Now that studies show diet soda really may not help you keep the weight off, and regular soda is full of sugar, soda drinkers may want to look for a better and healthier drink alternative.

Eating healthy, exercising regularly, and  drinking healthy beverages without added sugar are the best ways to lose extra weight  and keep it off.

Irene Bellamy wrote this on April 10th, 2008 and filed it under Diet Logs |