Wow! I was really shocked by what I found. I knew that diet drinks were very bad for you because of aspartame and I knew in general it was bad for you but I didn’t know why. I found this site written by a doctor that explained it and it all made sense! “And that diet drinks may be even worse than regular sugar sweetened sodas!! How does that happen? • Artificial sweeteners are hundreds to thousands of times sweeter than regular sugar activating our genetically programmed preference for sweet taste more than any other substance. • They trick your metabolism into thinking sugar is on its way. This causes your body to pump out insulin, the fat storage hormone, which lays down more belly fat. • It also confuses and slows your metabolism down, so you burn less calories every day. • It makes you hungrier and crave even more sugar and starchy carbs like bread and pasta. • In animal studies, the rats that consumed artificial sweeteners ate more, their metabolism slowed, and they put on 14 percent more body fat in just two weeks – EVEN eating less calories. • In population studies there was a 200 percent increased risk of obesity in diet soda drinkers.” drhyman/blog/2013/02/15/how-diet-soda-makes-you-fat-and-other-food-and-diet-industry-secrets/#close
Posted on: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 01:52:54 +0000