Diet Soda: It's Not a Diet if Drinking it Makes You Fat and Diabetic

Shocking news for dieters!  Artificial sweeteners in sodas could be making you fat instead of skinny.  Two studies presented this week at the American Diabetes Association's Scientific Sessions offer evidence that diet sodas could expand your waistline and lead to diabetes.

Aspartame is the common factor in both studies.  It's what you put in your body every time you sip a diet soft drink.  Most dieters turn to these drinks looking for the sweet taste without the calories.  Turns out the calories aren't the only problem after all.

In the first study, researchers compared the waist size of diet soda drinkers to non-diet soda drinkers.  Surprise surprise! They discovered that the waistlines of the diet soda group grew 70% more than the non-diet group!  That's an incredible amount of weight gain for a group of people who you could call "dieters."

The second study focused on the relationship to aspartame and diabetes.  The researchers found that a group of mice fed aspartame laced food pellets had a higher glucose levels and lower levels of insulin production than the group of mice fed only plain food pellets.  The aspartame mice were well on their way to becoming diabetic mice.

An easier way to cut out calories from soda, is to just stop drinking it.  Don't buy it.  Don't have it in the house.  Don't order it at a restaurant.  Try doing this for just one week.  Once you've kicked the soda habit, you'll be free from the toxic dangers. It may only be a coincidence that the first three letters of the phrase diet soda are "die," but why chance it?

For more information on how you can lead a healthier life, go to the Sarasota Physical Medicine website.