Dear Diet Pepsi,

NormalSaneFLGuy

I used to drink it a bunch and I still like the sweetness.

However, I tried replacing the sugar in my diet with artificial sweetener a few weeks ago and I noticed that I was eating more and not losing weight. I have seen studies that say people who consume artificial sweetener tend to eat more.

The body appears to compensate by the decreased intake of sugars by learning to eat more other things.

Here's a summary from the 2005 University of Texas Study

Fowler's team looked at seven to eight years of data on 1,550 Mexican-American and non-Hispanic white Americans aged 25 to 64. Of the 622 study participants who were of normal weight at the beginning of the study, about a third became overweight or obese.

For regular soft-drink drinkers, the risk of becoming overweight or obese was:

26% for up to 1/2 can each day
30.4% for 1/2 to one can each day
32.8% for 1 to 2 cans each day
47.2% for more than 2 cans each day.
For diet soft-drink drinkers, the risk of becoming overweight or obese was:

36.5% for up to 1/2 can each day
37.5% for 1/2 to one can each day
54.5% for 1 to 2 cans each day
57.1% for more than 2 cans each day.
For each can of diet soft drink consumed each day, a person's risk of obesity went up 41%.

It's not clear why this happens in humans.

In a 2008 study with rats:

"We found that reducing the correlation between sweet taste and the caloric content of foods using artificial sweeteners in rats resulted in increased caloric intake, increased body weight, and increased adiposity, as well as diminished caloric compensation and blunted thermic responses to sweet-tasting diets. These results suggest that consumption of products containing artificial sweeteners may lead to increased body weight and obesity by interfering with fundamental homeostatic, physiological processes. "


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_substitute#Weight_gain_and_insulin_response_to_artificial_sweeteners

http://psycnet.apa.org/?&fa=main.doiLanding&doi=10.1037/0735-7044.122.1.161

http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20050613/drink-more-diet-soda-gain-more-weight

I used to read comments until they got so fricken long.
If it can't be summarized in 3 lines. It's crap.

Nerdy_Rose

Diet Dr. Pepper will always have my heart, followed by diet IBC Root Beer at a close 2nd.

ahjenny

I used to drink it a bunch and I still like the sweetness.

However, I tried replacing the sugar in my diet with artificial sweetener a few weeks ago and I noticed that I was eating more and not losing weight. I have seen studies that say people who consume artificial sweetener tend to eat more.

The body appears to compensate by the decreased intake of sugars by learning to eat more other things.

Here's a summary from the 2005 University of Texas Study

Fowler's team looked at seven to eight years of data on 1,550 Mexican-American and non-Hispanic white Americans aged 25 to 64. Of the 622 study participants who were of normal weight at the beginning of the study, about a third became overweight or obese.

For regular soft-drink drinkers, the risk of becoming overweight or obese was:

26% for up to 1/2 can each day
30.4% for 1/2 to one can each day
32.8% for 1 to 2 cans each day
47.2% for more than 2 cans each day.
For diet soft-drink drinkers, the risk of becoming overweight or obese was:

36.5% for up to 1/2 can each day
37.5% for 1/2 to one can each day
54.5% for 1 to 2 cans each day
57.1% for more than 2 cans each day.
For each can of diet soft drink consumed each day, a person's risk of obesity went up 41%.

It's not clear why this happens in humans.

In a 2008 study with rats:

"We found that reducing the correlation between sweet taste and the caloric content of foods using artificial sweeteners in rats resulted in increased caloric intake, increased body weight, and increased adiposity, as well as diminished caloric compensation and blunted thermic responses to sweet-tasting diets. These results suggest that consumption of products containing artificial sweeteners may lead to increased body weight and obesity by interfering with fundamental homeostatic, physiological processes. "


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_substitute#Weight_gain_and_insulin_response_to_artificial_sweeteners

http://psycnet.apa.org/?&fa=main.doiLanding&doi=10.1037/0735-7044.122.1.161

http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20050613/drink-more-diet-soda-gain-more-weight

I used to read comments until they got so fricken long.
If it can't be summarized in 3 lines. It's crap.

AKA... TL,DR (too long, didn't read)

jenmsu83

Totally agree...but my diet pepsi of choice is wild cherry....mmmmmm.

MoreBean13

Totally agree...but my diet pepsi of choice is wild cherry....mmmmmm.

I Diet Wild Cherry! But they don't make it in my favorite 1-L size (at least anywhere I've seen) :sad:

coolvstar650

That is exactly the way I feel about Coke Zero.