New study - diet soda better than water for weight loss

Well it does fill me up so I can't eat. I guess that is something positive? lol

I had to chuckle when I read who funded the study. I'm not buying it.

You know, except for the headaches I get from fake sugars, and the fact that I feel lethargic if I drink diet soda like I do water.

Honestly, to me water tastes better. Diet soda isn't worth it to me. If I want soda, I'll go out and buy the real thing! My policy is everything in moderation. It's working so far!
Besides, what about all those scientific studies about how soda will make you hungrier/ cause health problems due to weird chemicals?

In related news, apparently 50% of MFP users have no sense of facetiousness.

I'd say more than that..:brokenheart:

Do these diet sodas have caffeine in them?

The study was funded by the ABA, but they had no participation in the study or its findings, and the article was peer-reviewed.

I stopped drinking diet soda around Thanksgiving 2013, and other than nasty caffeine withdrawal symptoms, it has had no effect on my weight loss (did not stop drinking because of weight, but other factors). In the last week I've started adding it back in, usually in the early afternoon when I hit a slump. The caffeine boosts my energy enough that I don't end up snacking to stay awake, and it fulfills my craving for something sweet. I still drink plenty of water.

It makes sense if you think about it. They are both zero calorie, but diet pop still needs to be processed at least somewhat, which costs energy, while water is pretty much a direct pass through.

Also, it satisfies urges for sweet things.

Perfectly logical. I can't think of any reason why water would be more useful in terms of pure weight loss.

Diet pop is unfairly maligned.

Don't really care since I don't drink it, but I find it funny when people dismiss studies by the funding source. Dismissing by funding source alone is usually the first sign that someone doesn't really understand the science involved

http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v38/n5/full/ijo201432a.html

Unfortunately, eric--what the article doesn't discuss is the number of "scientists" who are willing to prostitute themselves for always just a little bit more funding. Science isn't what it used to be when the vast majority of funding came from non-commercial interests. Sorry to disillusion you but the deep pockets rule in the realm of medical science today--probably not so much in other fields of science. Although I had a Ph.D. in chemistry once say to me that, "For the right amount of funding, the question often becomes, 'What do you want this study to show?' " Believe that for the few who are caught there are many others who get away with it--until the next study comes along that appears to contradict that study. And then no one knows what to believe. :frown:

yep - where there is money there is corruption.

It neither surprises me, nor changes my behavior. I don't interpret the study as saying that diet soda is better than water for weight loss, but rather that water alone isn't as good for weight loss as a variety of beverages. I skimmed the article, but was the total amount of fluids controlled for? It would not surprise me at all if the diet soda drinkers drank more fluids overall, since they were probably drinking soda AND water. And variety is the spice of life. If the control group was drinking fewer fluids than the soda group, then I am not surprised at all that they lost weight.

It will make very little difference for most people. If you are a soda drinker, then you will probably keep drinking soda. If you think diet soda is gross, then you won't start drinking it now just because of this study. The only people who it will have an effect on are the people who were swayed by the (iffy) studies that came out awhile back saying that diet soda hinders weight loss.

The results of a new study published in the journal Obesity imply that diet soda is a more effective weight loss tool than water. The findings are controversial, and what is more, the study was funded by the American Beverage Association.

Go!

Well, cancer does cause a loss of appetite...

:noway:

I do find bubbly beverages fill me up so I sometimes have them instead of a snack. I usually pick a flavored sparkling water.