Drinking Diet Soda Makes You Fat?

A researcher at the University of Texas did an 8 year study that studied soda drinkers. They discovered that people that drank diet soda had HIGHER risk of obesity than people who drank regular soda. For each can of diet soda consumed a day, the risk of obesity went up 41%.

Now these guys are not saying that diet soda causes obesity necessarily, but they argue that diet soda "promises" your body calories that it does not deliver, and your body makes up for that by demanding calories from somewhere else.

If you drink 2 or more cans of diet soda a day your risk of obesity or being overweight rises by 57%

http://my.webmd.com/content/article/107/108476.htm

Tue. Jun 21, 5:39am

i m told by my wife that she had done a experiement in high school and tested coke against diet coke and found that if coke had 9 cups of sugar that diet coke had 8, and that peoples mentality was since it is diet they would drink not just one but 2 or 3. thats where people would put on the weight. soda is in general empty calories, i used to drink a ton of diet soda b4 i got married but i have stopped drinking soda in general becuz it just fills u up and makes u bloated and slows down metabolism.

Tuesday, June 21, 2005, 7:52 AM

I read that article, pretty interesting. I don't love drinking soda, however I've noticed I'm drinking diet soda more in the afternoons to give myself a perk. I can't drink coffee that late because I'll get a headache for some reason.

Does anyone have ideas of what I can drink that is fairly low in calories but helps me get over that 3pm hump?

Tuesday, June 21, 2005, 10:26 AM

Have you tried tea? Don't add milk - for me, at least, milk decreases the effect of the caffiene. And it also adds calories.

Tuesday, June 21, 2005, 10:40 AM

Tea easier on system in general

Tea is lot easier on your stomach, and it might reduce your headaches too.

I drink both, but I seldom find ill side-effects from tea, whereas I often do from too much coffee.

Also, there's green tea, which many swear by.

I personally use milk. Couldn't stand the stuff otherwise.

Tuesday, June 21, 2005, 10:47 AM

Thanks, I really do need to be better and tea is a good solution. Thanks.

Tuesday, June 21, 2005, 11:41 AM

Where does the sugar come from in diet soda? There are no calories... Right??

Tuesday, June 21, 2005, 11:45 AM

tea is also super high in anti-oxidants

Both green and black tea are a great source. I read recently that 50% of the anti-oxidants consumed by Americans comes from Tea.

Tuesday, June 21, 2005, 12:06 PM

100th reason not to drink it

Wednesday, December 12, 2007, 4:26 PM

PP- what?!?!

Wednesday, December 12, 2007, 9:58 PM

Yeah I'm curious where those "8 cups of sugar" come from in diet soda? It has no calories so how can it have sugar?

Wednesday, December 12, 2007, 10:46 PM

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