Interesting ...
I got this email from Gold's Gym:
More Diet Drinks, More Weight Gain?
A study at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio has reached a surprising conclusion: Diet soft drinks don't help you to lose weight. In fact, they may actually promote weight gain. After 8 years of data on 1,550 participants; those who drank one diet soda per day were 65 percent more likely to become overweight during the next 7 to 8 years and 41 percent more likely to become obese than non-diet soda drinkers.
"Some studies suggest that diet drinks stimulate appetite," says study coauthor Sharon P. Fowler. "If you offer your body something that tastes like a lot of calories, but it isn't there, your body is alerted to the possibility that there is something there and it will search for the calories promised but not delivered. People think they can just fool their system but maybe it isn't fooled. If you're not giving yourself those calories you promised, maybe your body will retaliate by wanting more calories. "
For a 25 calorie alternative try brewing some ice tea with a bit of honey to quench your thirst.
Source: www.webmd.com
So, I guess drinking my full-calorie Mountain Dew is better for me that those diet drinks my friends are drinking :P Though, I don't buy the reasoning they give ...
More Diet Drinks, More Weight Gain?
A study at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio has reached a surprising conclusion: Diet soft drinks don't help you to lose weight. In fact, they may actually promote weight gain. After 8 years of data on 1,550 participants; those who drank one diet soda per day were 65 percent more likely to become overweight during the next 7 to 8 years and 41 percent more likely to become obese than non-diet soda drinkers.
"Some studies suggest that diet drinks stimulate appetite," says study coauthor Sharon P. Fowler. "If you offer your body something that tastes like a lot of calories, but it isn't there, your body is alerted to the possibility that there is something there and it will search for the calories promised but not delivered. People think they can just fool their system but maybe it isn't fooled. If you're not giving yourself those calories you promised, maybe your body will retaliate by wanting more calories. "
For a 25 calorie alternative try brewing some ice tea with a bit of honey to quench your thirst.
Source: www.webmd.com
So, I guess drinking my full-calorie Mountain Dew is better for me that those diet drinks my friends are drinking :P Though, I don't buy the reasoning they give ...