Voices
What the Food and
Diet Industry Doesn’t
Want You to Know
Diet Soda and Diet Drinks Make
You Fat and Cause Type 2 Diabetes
If losing weight were all about
the calories, then consuming diet
drinks would seem like a good
idea. That’s certainly what CocaCola wants us to believe in their
new ad highlighting their efforts
to fight obesity. They proudly
promote the fact that they have
180 low- or no-calorie drinks and
that they cut sugared drinks in
schools by 90 percent.
Is that a good thing? In fact, it
may be worse than having us all
drink regular Coke (and the other
food giants making diet drinks
also push the same propaganda).
A new 14-year study of 66,118
women (supported by many other
previous studies) found that the
opposite seems to be true. Diet
drinks may be worse than sugar-sweetened drinks, which are
worse than fruit juices (but only
fresh-squeezed fruit juices).
The study, published in the
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, discovered some frightening facts that should make us all
MARK
HYMAN
HUFFINGTON
03.24.13
swear off diet drinks and products.
Diet sodas raised the risk of
diabetes more than sugar-sweetened sodas!
Women who drank one
12-ounce diet soda had a 33 percent increased risk of Type 2 diabetes, and women who drank one
20-ounce soda had a 66 percent
increased risk.
The average diet soda drinker
consumes three diet drinks a day.
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.”
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 in-