Contents:
- Medical Video: Diet Soda Leads to Weight Gain? Dr. Matthew Brengman Discusses Artificial Sweeteners
- Diet soda helps you lose weight, really?
- Other studies prove the opposite
- The effect of drinking soda often, besides gaining weight
Medical Video: Diet Soda Leads to Weight Gain? Dr. Matthew Brengman Discusses Artificial Sweeteners
Soda drinks have become one of the many drinks consumed by many people. At various fast food restaurants, sodas are the right drink to enjoy with your fries or hamburgers. However, eating too often soft drinks can cause weight gain and increase the risk of certain diseases. Therefore, to overcome this, soda manufacturers produce low-calorie soda products called diet soda. In fact, he says diet soda can help you lose weight. Is it true?
Diet soda helps you lose weight, really?
Diet soda is a carbonated drink that contains lower calories. This makes diet soda drinks might be better than ordinary soda drinks. Lower calorie content makes many people assume that this drink does not cause weight gain, such as regular soda.
In fact, a study funded by the American Beverage Association proves that people who consume diet soda can lose more weight (by 6 kg) than people who don't take it (only 4 kg) within 12 weeks. Researchers explained that people who drink soda are better able to cope with behavioral changes during diet as an effort to lose weight.
However, this research is widely disputed by other studies that say that diet soda can actually increase body weight and increase the risk of certain diseases.
Other studies prove the opposite
Although diet soda contains lower calories, diet diets still contain artificial sweeteners. Now, this artificial sweetener can cause you to gain weight.
Many studies link artificial sweeteners with increased appetite. One of them is a study conducted by Purdue University. This research proves that artificial sweeteners can interfere with the body's natural ability to assess and regulate calories from food.
Artificial sweeteners in diet soda can make the body confused. The body becomes less able to recognize the energy in the sweet liquid that enters your body. So, when your body feels that you have not received enough calories (even though you have received enough sugar), your body will increase your appetite. This can then cause you to gain weight.
Another study that followed more than 5,000 adults for 7-8 years also proved that soda can cause weight gain. The more diet soda consumed, the more weight gain achieved by participants in the study.
The effect of drinking soda often, besides gaining weight
Not only associated with weight gain, soda is also associated with many diseases, such as heart disease and diabetes. Research conducted by the University of Minnesota has shown that drinking one can of diet soda per day can be associated with an increased risk of metabolic syndrome by 36%.
The metabolic syndrome describes a group of conditions, namely high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high cholesterol, and large waist circumference. This can then cause an increased risk of heart disease and diabetes.
In addition, soda is also associated with an increased risk of osteoporosis, tooth problems (such as cavities), trigger headaches, even associated with the risk of depression.
