Many people like to drink diet soda because it has less sugar and fewer calories.
The word diet sounds that diet soda may help people lose weight.
Although it is true that diet soda has less energy compared with sugary soda, recent studies have found that it can be had to your health.
For instance, one recent study showed that people who frequently drink diet soda have a much higher risk of type 2 diabetes.
Researchers found that that sugar substitutes in diet soda need be used with the utmost caution.
They analyzed data from nearly 100,000 French women, who reported full details of each food intake, including snacks and appetizers prior to the three main meals and evening snacks.
The team found that women who often drink beverages with artificial sweeteners had a much higher risk of type 2 diabetes. In addition, diabetes risk was accumulated over time.
They explain that people who consume a lot of sweeteners have a greater appetite for sugar, coupled with a tendency to overeat in general.
Another possibility is that those who consume large amounts of sweeteners produce less hormone that promotes pancreatic insulin secretion.
These people may have weak glucose metabolism.
In another study, researchers found that diet soda could harm brain health.
The researchers analyzed data from the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) and found that people who often drink sugary beverages are more likely to have poorer memory, smaller overall brain volume, and a much smaller hippocampus.
This brain area is important for learning and memory.
Moreover, people who drank diet soda daily were almost three times as likely to develop stroke and dementia when compared to those who did not.
The team suggests that plain water is much healthier than regular soda and diet soda.
Why does diet soda lead to weight gain?
One recent study examined the brain of people who often drink diet soda and who often drink sugary soda.
It found that people who drink a lot of diet soda showed a decreased activity in the amygdala. This area is involved with taste perception and the experience of eating.
Another study shows that longer-term and higher diet soda drinking is linked to lower activity in the brain’s “caudate head,” a brain region necessary for generating a feeling of satisfaction.
These findings suggest that people who drink diet soda may compensate for the lack of pleasure by eating more food, all types of food.
This could increase the risk of overweight and obesity.
Another reason why diet soda could lead to weight gain is that these drinkers don’t control their drinking amount.
They believe that diet soda has few calories, so it is okay to drink a lot. In that case, they still drink a lot of calories.
These studies suggest people drink plain water instead of diet soda. In addition, doctors should remind their patients about the health risk of diet soda.
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