Diet Drinks & Weight Gain

There is a misconception, in our society, that drinking diet drinks can prevent weight gain. People who drink diet soft drinks don't lose weight. In fact, they gain weight. The findings come from eight years of data collected at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio. All soft drink use is linked to overweight and obesity. What is surprising to most people is drinking diet soft drinks, increases the risk of obesity.

Researchers found that nearly all the obesity risk from soft drinks came from diet sodas.

For regular soft-drink drinkers, the risk of becoming overweight or obese was: 32.8 percent for 1 to 2 cans each day, 47.2 percent for more than 2 cans each day.

For diet soft-drink drinkers, the risk of becoming overweight or obese was 54.5 percent for 1 to 2 cans each day, 57.1 percent for more than 2 cans each day.

For each can of diet soft drink consumed each day, a person's risk of obesity went up 41 percent.

Some soft drink studies do suggest that diet drinks stimulate appetite. For every twelve ounces of diet soda consumed, the body retains twenty-four ounces of fluid.

This should be a wake-up call to all soda drinkers but especially diet soda drinkers.

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