We all know by this time that soda is one of the most malignant things you can put in your body… The nasty chemicals, the gut-fattening high fructose corn syrup, and a myriad of health Problems caused by this carbonated cocktail worshipped by the ones that don’t care about their health or body.

Surprisingly, many people wrongly believe that “diet” soda is in some way a great thing for losing body fat. In reality I hear folk all of the time proudly say they eat so healthy and only drink diet soda. And these same folks preach how to get a ripped stomach.

So let’s set the record straight…

There is NOTHING even remotely healthy about drinking diet soda. In fact , I’ve even seen 1 or 2 studies that showed dedicated diet soda drinkers got even FATTER than their ordinary soda drinking opposite numbers.

Here’s some observations from an eight year College of Texas study I Had read…

An excerpt from the study author :

“What didn’t surprise us was that total cola use was linked to chunky and obesity,” Fowler tells WebMD. “What was surprising was when we looked at folk only drinking diet colas, their risk of obesity was even higher.”

“There was a 41 percent increase in risk of being obese for every can or bottle of diet alcohol-free drink somebody consumes each day,” Fowler says.

Ok, as if we didn’t already know how hard regular soda was for us, and now they are showing us studies that diet soda makes us even fatter than the already bad stuff!

There’s a lot of complicating factors as to why this occurs…

1 explanation is that the synthetic sweeteners in diet sodas create a negative hormonal reply in the body that increases fat storing hormone production and increases cravings for more candy and refined carbs in the time period after consuming the diet drink.

One more reason is that folk may unconsciously think that because they are drinking a diet soda, that gives them more room to eat more of everything else, hence consuming more calories overall.

I’ve announced this all along, but the final analysis is that if you are really serious about your health and body, soda of any sort ( and synthesised sweeteners in anything for what it’s worth ) must be avoided at every point, except for extremely infrequent occasions when you can’t avoid them.

Another article I did about artificial sweeteners explains more of the Problems with them and good substitutes

So what’s a reasonable alternative to diet sodas?

The best alternatives are good old water with lemon or unsweetened iced teas… You have masses of options with teas – green, white, black, oolong, red… Be imaginative in making your iced teas and you’ll like it more. And you’ll get a rather more diverse spread of anti-oxidants.

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