Diet soda in 'fat' shocker; Expands girth, hikes blood sugar: studies

New York Post ^ | June 30, 2011 | BILL SANDERSON AND GRANT JUNKIE

[expat1000]

I’m not insinuating anything, but personally, I tried diet soda exactly once. It had such a chemical, unnatural taste to me that I had no desire to ever drink another one.

[TigersEye]

I was a major consumer of regular Pepsi for years and knew it was causing me problems. I finally just quit it and began to feel better within a couple of weeks. After a year or so my chronic back and neck pain and chronic tiredness were at least 90% improved. Way too much nasty stuff in sodas and artificial sweeteners are just a tradeoff for a different kind negative substance.

[Eric Blair 2084]

You got it. Outright con jobs.

Like the global warming studies that say that human beings can control the temperature of a planet in the Milky Way galaxy as if we had a thermostat.

It doesn’t pass the laugh test. As long as the gravy train keeps giving them money, who cares?

[Eric Blair 2084]

"Screw you guys, I'm going home."

[AnotherUnixGeek]

People who drink diet soda experienced a 70 percent greater increase in waist circumference over a decade than non-users, a study by the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio found.

The NY Post makes it sound like these people are somehow magically converting those 0 calories into belly fat. Obviously people who drink diet soda have bad eating habits and are putting on weight through other food and drink.

Otherwise we could put them to work in some of those exciting New Green technology companies Obama and Pelosi were babbling about a couple of years ago, since they're apparently able to extract energy from nothing.

[PA Engineer]

This is because the cephalic phase of appetite control senses sweetness and signals the body that food is on the way. Time goes by and the food doesn't arrive and triggers an increase in appetite resulting in overeating that results in obesity.

Agree and would add this is the insidious side of metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance. Aspartame, besides being an excitotoxin also increases the cravings for high glycemic carbohydrates. Those with insulin sensitivity do not suffer this particular side effect.

What a waste of research dollars.

[Grams A]

the gal thinks she can eat cheesecake if she jogs in place while eating it...”

Are you trying to tell me this isn’t true?

[smokingfrog]

that they have additives in skim milk....

water

[DustyMoment]

What everyone else said!!

The BS meter has spun around the dial twice and is headed for its third rotation after this story!!

[PieterCasparzen]

IMHO...

If you really must have fizzy beverages, buy carbonated water, i.e., seltzer, and take a few blackberries or your natural fruit of choice, squish them into juice and add that to your fizzy water.

Viola - nothing bad in it and tastes great.

You’ll pay $4.95 a glass for that in a restaurant because it is a such a “delicacy”.

If you want to add sugar, heat cane sugar in water to make a little sugar syrup, add that to the fruit soda with a couple ice cubes.

No chemicals with names like jfsdkljfwdkluweirwoej, so you don’t need to research the chemical name to see how your bodily systems will deal with it - it’s just natural food.

[eyedigress]

bump

[Mr Rogers]

“A Purdue University study released Sunday in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience reported that rats on diets containing the artificial sweetener saccharin gained more weight than rats given sugary food, casting doubt on the benefits of low-calorie sweeteners.

“There’s something about diet foods that changes your metabolic limit, your brain chemistry,” said ABC News’ medical contributor Dr. Marie Savard.”

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/story?id=4271246&page=1

I doubt they only studied fat rats...

[DustyMoment]

Hey, got a question for all those diet soda drinkers:

Some of us drink diet sode because we don't like water, don't want to drink milk and have diabetes.

And, the sugar sodas are worse for diabetics than the diet sodas. The sugar sodas can kill us.

[thecodont]

People who drink diet soda experienced a 70 percent greater increase in waist circumference over a decade than non-users, a study by the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio found.

The NY Post makes it sound like these people are somehow magically converting those 0 calories into belly fat. Obviously people who drink diet soda have bad eating habits and are putting on weight through other food and drink.

Speaking from experience:

Diet soda + 1500 calories/day = weight loss.

It's the calories. Period.

And as another poster pointed out: not all people drink diet soda for the zero calories. Some of us really do like the taste.

[Impy]

“I’ll have 2 Big Macs, 2 large fries, apple pie and a DIET coke please!” ;d

There are few things I hate more than diet pop. I went to a party at my uncle’s house, they always buy diet for some reason, I tried Coke Zero, it’s even worse than regular diet coke! Their commercials lie worse than any politician.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWwg_5-ou0A&feature=related

[Eric Blair 2084]

Nobody believes a liar, even when they are telling the truth.

[Yaelle]

Fake sugar is FAR worse for you than real sugar. It is literally poison and will eventually make you very sick or kill you. And it is a MYTH that fake sugar doesn’t lead to metabolic syndrome or diabetes, and is “ok” for use by diabetics.

And lower calories is not the way to thin and health. Eating the right foods is. You can eat plenty of calories if they are from healthy, non starchy foods, and lose weight and have a healthy, active body and brain.

[Quix]

PING TO THE OP

[Yaelle]

Excellent. I only wish more people knew this.

[editor-surveyor]

Artificial sweetners raise hell with your endocrine system, for starters.

The rest of it is simply that those that make the poor decision to drink that crap also make hundreds of other bad diet decisions, like pasta, white bread, breakfast cereal, canola oil, soy oil, and who knows what else.