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Are diet sodas fattening? Is it a myth that they help save calories?
Apr 6, 2014

Dr. Ghassan Nawfal Surgery
Studies following people who regularly consume diet soft drinks over time have found that those people are at higher risk for weight gain and obesity than people who don't drink sodas at all.
Artificial sweeteners may also facilitate something psychologists call cognitive distortions when, after drinking diet products, hormones that increase the feeling of fullness and satisfaction are not triggered.
Water is the best bet for people who are trying to lose weight or improve other measures of health.
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Dr. Rania Mousa General Medicine
Not only is diet soda NOT helping you lose weight, it has countless negative effects on your health Here’s what you DON’T know about diet soda and why it’s actually not helping you lose weight.
Diet soda is loaded with artificial sweeteners and chemicals that can be harmful to your body ,most are sweetened with at least one of these sugar substitutes,researches have linked them that they can be liknked to cancer.
Research has shown that artificial sweeteners can cause you to eat more,when we eat regular sugar, our bodies register the sweetness and come to understand that very sweet things contain a lot of calories. Studies suggest that using artificial sweeteners, tricks our bodies so that our internal ability to count calories is thrown way off.
Diet” doesn’t mean calorie-free. If you still want to drink diet soda, consider that the “no calorie” claim doesn’t actually mean “zero.” Although diet sodas with aspartame may be labeled as “calorie-free,” aspartame breaks down in the body into methanol and amino acids, which generate calories.
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