ohnomongo

I'm 5'3.5" and my goal weight is to be not overweight so it's 140lbs. I think I'd like to be thinner and more toned so I may reassess.

I'm not really sure of your point. The way science works is there's a peer review process so I read those published scientific works and decide based on them. Were you trying to say that people can say what they want on the internet? That is true but since the original poster is actually wanting good information based in…

I'm a scientist and I wrote a blog post about it. http://crunchyscientist.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/obesity-carbohydrates-diet-drinks-and-correlation-studies/ But basically: My husband has in the past brought up the idea of diet drinks causing weight gain and although I explained this fallacy to him at the time, he recently…