The Diet Logs

Soda that is. Interestingly enough, there was an article I stumbled on earlier on reminded me of my own theory about diet drinks, and how they can contribute to making a person gain weight (or slow weight loss down):

So it is with our bodies, researchers theorize: Given a sweetish drink, but no calories, we go into search-obtain-and-eat mode. (Infant rats did this in an earlier study: Those given fake sweeteners craved calories more than those given real sugar).

Yes, study authors note, you can drink diet pop and consciously avoid snacking. But biochemically speaking, it’s harder for your body to cope with that, and for some it may be impossible.

It may or may not be a valuable theory, as this probably depends on people anyway (we don’t all have the same triggers, after all). I still find it quite logical, though, that drinking such sodas, and having the “sugary taste” in mouth, does have the potential to make the brain decide that it wants more. Once this is done, whether we can resist the induced craving or not is probably what makes the difference.

crystal wrote this on August 7th, 2008 and filed it under Diet Logs |