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Monday, July 25, 2011

Study: Drinking diet soda actually causes weight gain, blood sugar spikes

Study: Drinking diet soda actually causes weight gain, blood sugar spikes.  I have had this "discussion" with friends and family about the health dangers of diet sodas,  particularly those with Aspartame.  Here is documentationon the problems that "diet" drinks create, including weight gain and obesity.


"(NaturalNews) Contrary to popular belief, diet soda and other foods and beverages made with artificial sweeteners like aspartame are not healthy, and they do not bring about weight loss.  A landmark new study out of Texas confirms this, having found that not only do diet sodas not help with weight loss, but they actually cause both weight gain and health problems.



http://www.naturalnews.com/033110_diet_soda_weight_gain.html


"Researchers from the University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHSC) at San Antonio gathered ten years worth of data on 474 participants from a larger, ongoing study called the San Antonio Longitudinal Study of Aging. Among these participants, those that consumed two or more diet sodas a day experienced waist size increases that were a shocking six times greater than those who did not drink diet soda.

"Data from this and other prospective studies suggest that the promotion of diet sodas and artificial sweeteners as healthy alternatives may be ill-advised," said Helen P. Hazuda, a study researcher and professor at the UTHSC school of medicine. "They may be free of calories, but not of consequences."

Presented at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association (ADA), the findings debunk the false notion that drinking diet beverages is beneficial for weight loss. Since consuming them actually leads to a 70 percent increase in waist size compared to those who do not drink them, it is clear that using the name "diet" is, in and of itself, misleading."




"There's something about diet foods that changes your metabolic limit, your brain chemistry," said Dr. Marie Savard, a medical contributor for ABC News, in response to those findings. "The truth is, we're putting artificial sweetener in so many different things: in water, in yogurt. We have to rethink what this artificial stuff does to us."

A 2010 study conducted by researchers from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases adds to this, having found that the body's reaction to the ingestion of artificial sweeteners appears to be brain confusion over how exactly to process it, which in and of itself is implicated in causing various other negative consequences (http://www.naturalnews.com/028592_a...).

US Food and Drug Administration adverse event reports going back several decades indicate that artificial sweeteners like aspartame are also responsible for destroying brain neurons, which in turn leads to a host of chronic illnesses.
 

These include, but are not limited to, chronic headaches, seizures, strokes, vascular disorders, heart disease, premature birth, dementia and other brain disorders, and cancer (http://www.naturalnews.com/aspartam...).

 
Study: Drinking diet soda actually causes weight gain, blood sugar spikes.   If you "bought into" the lies about diet sodas and artificial sweeteners causing you to lose weight, then it is time to readdress that issue and find another low calorie drink. Like water.

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