If you are one of the diet soda avid consumers who think they're safe from gaining weight, a recent study is here to prove you wrong. In spite of the popular opinion that anything that has "diet" on it must really help us maintain our slim figure, diet sodas are just as bad for your body fat as regular ones.
Whenever we try to lose some weight, we turn our attention to diet sodas rather than regular ones, in hopes they are helping us in our endeavor. However, a new study shows that drinking diet beverages in excess might lead to gaining fat around the waist.
A team of researchers from the University of Texas's Health Science Centre has found that consuming diet sodas on a regular basis results in adding 3 more inches around the waist over a period of 10 years.
The study observed more than 700 volunteers aged over 65 for a period of 10 years, discovering that diet beverages consumers gained more than three times the fat non-consumers did. Waists of the non-diet drinkers expanded with 0.77 cm, compared to the 1.83 cm growth in frequent consumers.
Artificial sweeteners seem to slowly lose their apparent nutritious benefits, even though they have gained a lot of traction among the American population during the last 30 years. All they have been able to bless us with is interminable sicknesses and slow but sure gain of weight.
These artificial sweeteners have been linked to a lot of health problems: overweight, diabetes, hypertension, heart attacks and kidney failure. The most recent connection was made between diet sodas and belly fat, which is known to be the most dangerous to the human well-being. It covers important organs and makes us prone to metabolic disorders, tumors, diabetes and a long list of other conditions.
Sharon Fowler, lead author of the study, explains that the research was unable to pinpoint precisely why diet beverages were so connected with increased abdomen size, but she believes it has to do with the existence of artificial in the beverages.
The sodas' causticity could also be involved, as the acid might destroy some microscopic organisms living in the gut that are responsible for the human digest. Sweeteners could also mess up the natural sugar processing, making us hungrier, and therefore, fatter.
Fowler explained that the gut micro biome could be thought of an inner rainforest, and the sodas' are a constant acid rain that destroys the intestines ecosystem. Drinking diet or regular sodas is not a consequence-free action.
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