Yes, diet soda DOES make you fat

Hey, it's Mike Geary with another Lean-Body Secrets Ezine from
http://TruthAboutAbs.com

We all know by now that soda (aka "pop" in some areas) is one of the
most evil things you can put in your body... the nasty chemicals, the
gut-fattening high fructose corn syrup, and a myriad of health problems
caused by this carbonated cocktail worshipped by those that don't care
about their health or body.

Since you're one of my subscribers, I know that you actually do care
about your health and the appearance of your body.

Surprisingly, many people falsely believe that "diet" soda is in some
way a good thing for losing body fat. In fact, I hear people all the
time proudly state that they eat so healthy and only drink diet soda.

So let's set the record straight...

There is NOTHING even remotely healthy about drinking diet soda. In
fact, I've even seen several studies that showed dedicated diet soda
drinkers got even FATTER than their regular soda drinking counterparts.

Here's some findings from an 8-year University of Texas study that I
had read...

An excerpt from the study author:

"What didn't surprise us was that total soft drink use was linked to
overweight and obesity," Fowler tells WebMD. "What was surprising was
when we looked at people only drinking diet soft drinks, their risk of
obesity was even higher."

"There was a 41 percent increase in risk of being overweight for every
can or bottle of diet soft drink a person consumes each day," Fowler
says.

Ok, as if we didn't already know how bad regular soda was for us, and
now they're showing us studies that diet soda makes us even fatter than
the already bad stuff!

There's a lot of complicating factors as to why this occurs...

One reason is that the artificial sweeteners in diet sodas create a
negative hormonal response in the body that increases fat storing hormone
production and increases cravings for more sweets and refined
carbohydrates in the time period after consuming the diet drink.

Another reason is that people may subconsciously think that because
they are drinking a diet soda, that gives them more leeway to eat more of
everything else, hence consuming more calories overall.

I've said this all along, but the bottom line is that if you're serious
about your health and body, soda of any kind (and artificial
sweeteners in anything for that matter!) should be avoided at all times, except
for very rare occasions when you can't avoid them.

Another article I did about artificial sweeteners explains more of the
problems with them and good substitutes...

http://www.truthaboutabs.com/artificial-sweeteners-natural-stevia.html

So what is a good alternative to diet sodas?

The best alternatives are good old water with lemon or unsweetened iced
teas... you have plenty of options with teas - green, white, black,
oolong, red... be creative in making your iced teas and you'll enjoy it
more.

I just add a little of the natural non-caloric sweetener stevia to my
iced teas and I love them. I get my stevia here...

http://www.steviva.com/cgi-bin/cp-app.pl?rrc=N&pg=store&affl=m231g

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Mike Geary
Certified Nutrition Specialist
Certified Personal Trainer
Founder - http://TruthAboutAbs.com & http://BusyManFitness.com


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