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    Diet drinks lead to obesity

    Posts: 281 Member
    in Food and Nutrition
    You can't mess with evolution and mother nature.
    http://blog.fooducate.com/2013/07/13/scientific-evidence-diet-drinks-lead-to-obesity-disease/
    Earlier this week, a paper published in Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism pointed out something that the beverage industry would like you to ignore:

    accumulating evidence suggests that frequent consumers of sugar substitutes may be at increased risk of excessive weight gain, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Red more…

    The paper, written by Dr. Susan Swithers, Department of Psychological Sciences and Ingestive Behavior Research Center, Purdue University, reviews multiple studies from the past years, and shows that just like people who consume sugary drinks, the diet drinkers are at increased risk for disease.

    How could this be? There’s no sugar, no calories, and thus no harm in aspartame, sucralose, and others, right?

    WRONG.

    Apparently, artificial sweeteners mess with human metabolism. When we ingest sugary sweets, out gut is expecting energy to arrive within minutes. When these calories arrive, the body knows how to effectively deal with them. But when we consume artificial sweeteners, the gut is confused. After a while it is trained not to respond, or to partially respond, even when we are ingesting caloric sweeteners. The result is weight gain.

    Artificial sweeteners are a kind of cheating. Nature doesn’t like cheating, and our bodies are paying the price of decades of artificial crap in our diets. Perhaps it’s time to clean up?

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    • Posts: 8
      It may be bad for you but it won't cause obesity. ...
    • Posts: 3,027 Member
      What a load of BS. I drank no diet drinks before losing weight. I was fat. Now I'm not & drink them..... guess that proved that wrong.
    • Posts: 12,589 Member
      Ridiculous propaganda. There's not one tiny shred of proof or citation or study linked to that horse pile of an article. Way to fearmonger.

      ETA: I drink 2-4 diet soda's a day, plus a packet of Sweet'n Low in my 2-6 cups of coffee. :drinker:
    • Posts: 2,401 Member
      LOL

      this is gonna be good
    • Posts: 22,511 Member
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    • Posts: 12,589 Member
      http://andevidencelibrary.com/topic.cfm?cat=4089

      http://andevidencelibrary.com/topic.cfm?cat=4100

      http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/06/21/eight_toxic_foods_a_little_chemical_education.php
    • Posts: 1,298 Member
      My friend drinks normal soda and is close to obese. I drink diet and I'm not. We both punched science in the face.
    • Posts: 3,624 Member
      Or maybe it's overconsumption of food that causes all kinds of damage and then leads people to try and find a solution like drinking diet drinks instead of just downregulating their caloric intake.

      I dunno...
    • Posts: 24 Member
      from WebMD -- if they're the ones to believe or not, who knows <shrug>

      ***showing that people who drink artificially sweetened sodas as part of a calorie-restricted diet lose weight. So does Maureen Storey, PhD, who is senior vice president of science policy for the American Beverage Association.

      “The current body of available science shows that low-calorie sweeteners -- such as those used in diet soft drinks -- can help reduce calories and aid in maintaining a healthy weight,” Storey tells WebMD.

      She points out that the American Diabetes Association and the American Dietetic Association support the use of no-calorie sweeteners to restrict calories and sugar intake.***
    • Posts: 3,536 Member
      Well crap wish someone would have told me this before I went and lost all this weight drinking 2 or 3 Diet Pepsi a day....... lol I call Major BS...... :drinker:
    • Posts: 165 Member
      Scientists just discovered that FOOD causes obesity. Yes, it's true. One hundred percent of all obese rats ate food. In another study, scientists found that 100% of obese people in their study also ate food! I guess Mother Nature just hates us.
    • Posts: 9,151 Member
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      I got to 313# without touching a diet soda. Also, in for the gifs
    • Posts: 16,913 Member
      Oh no, not the diet drinks! Pepsi max how could you do this to me? I thought we were friends? I mean, I've lose nearly 18 pounds since switcing but it says right here you're going to make me obese! :sad:


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      Don't you look at me like that Pepsi Max! We're OVER
    • Posts: 867 Member
      You can't mess with evolution and mother nature.
      http://blog.fooducate.com/2013/07/13/scientific-evidence-diet-drinks-lead-to-obesity-disease/
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      Yes, I read something similar from a different independent source. Diet coke is the only unhealthy indulgence I have in my otherwise excellent diet and I am now considering kicking the habit.
      kind regards,

      Ben
    • Posts: 34,971 Member
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    • Posts: 12,589 Member
      Oh no, not the diet drinks! Pepsi max how could you do this to me? I thought we were friends? I mean, I've lose nearly 18 pounds since switcing but it says right here you're going to make me obese! :sad:


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      Don't you look at me like that Pepsi Max! We're OVER

      You should be drinking Coke Zero anyways
    • Posts: 14,025 Member
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      You should be drinking Coke Zero anyways

      +1
    • Posts: 56
      Causative link not established, etc.
    • Posts: 16,913 Member
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      You should be drinking Coke Zero anyways

      I don't like coke. I've had half a 2-liter of diet coke in my frig for about 3 weeks now.
    • Posts: 2,009 Member
      I can't believe we're having this debate... again!

      I have the absolute, final, undisputed answer on this topic so we can finally put this issue to rest!









      Pepsi Max > Coke Zero.

      You are welcome.
    • Posts: 17,857 Member
      You can't mess with evolution and mother nature.

      ...

      Artificial sweeteners are a kind of cheating. Nature doesn’t like cheating, and our bodies are paying the price of decades of artificial crap in our diets. Perhaps it’s time to clean up?
      Nature is a metaphor, not a person. Nature, being a metaphor, is not capable of liking or disliking cheating.
    • Posts: 2,403 Member
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    • Posts: 165 Member
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      Nature is a metaphor, not a person. Nature, being a metaphor, is not capable of liking or disliking cheating.

      For that matter can our "gut" get confused?
    • Posts: 3,483 Member
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    • Posts: 12,142 Member
      You can't mess with evolution and mother nature.
      http://blog.fooducate.com/2013/07/13/scientific-evidence-diet-drinks-lead-to-obesity-disease/
      show previous quotes

      There is nothing in the linked study that supports the gut getting confused

      Also

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    • Posts: 5,516 Member
      Oh good! I can check this topic of my MFP thread BINGO for the day…. Going for blackout here!
    • Posts: 761 Member
      I got fat with regular cola. I lost weight with diet. I know water is a much better alternative but having a diet coke once in a while, for me is a better alternative to binging.
    • Posts: 325 Member

      There is nothing in the linked study that supports the gut getting confused

      Also

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      I just fell out of my chair laughing.
    • Posts: 6,800 Member
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      I just fell out of my chair laughing.
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    • Posts: 16,913 Member
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      I just fell out of my chair laughing.

      Hey, don't laugh at the chart. It's based on data and has been graphed so it must be true and not taken even a wee bit out of context. It's not like people go around suggestion that things must have a causative relationship for no good reason!



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