Sorry, Diet Coke Zero
I am sure La Wade will have some insight into this study, but I hadn't heard about it before. It's a study showing a link between drinking diet soda and being overweight. Even more so than drinking regular soda!
"The group hypothesized that the body regulates its energy needs through appetite and that it learns to associate sweetness with a lot of calories. But when fed artificially sweetened foods and drinks on a regular basis, the body figures it can no longer use taste to estimate calorie consumption. It assumes that it can eat all the sweets it wants, without consequences."
I think that's fascinating, if true!
"The group hypothesized that the body regulates its energy needs through appetite and that it learns to associate sweetness with a lot of calories. But when fed artificially sweetened foods and drinks on a regular basis, the body figures it can no longer use taste to estimate calorie consumption. It assumes that it can eat all the sweets it wants, without consequences."
I think that's fascinating, if true!
posted by mo pie at 4:14 PM
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Yes, I agree with Jen. I mean, the diet-drink rats did take in less calories to begin with, so perhaps they were just redressing the balance.
As for the theory about a family history of obesity predisposing one to choose the diet version, I'm a living example, alas. I hope this study's not true. If I couldn't have Diet Vanilla Coke, I'd have one less weapon against the desire for ice cream.
Actually, I am a Diet Coke drinker and have been for a while.
I read that the risk of gaining weight while consuming diet sodas is really because your body revs up to process the sugar that it thinks it has gotten from the diet soda. Then your body craves sweets.
I have noticed since becoming a diet soda drinker that the cravings for sweet things have definitely increased. However, coming from 5-6 non-diet sodas a day, I figure that even if I ocassionally sucumb to the sweets craving I am still better of than I was before.
regular coke is better and better for you. diet causes higher obesity: proven fact Dr . Gregg Volk
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