Here are a few highlights:
"The researchers found that just like with regular soda, the consumption of artificially sweetened beverages like diet soda is also associated with obesity, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease. Drinking just one can of diet soda per day is "enough to significantly increase the risk for health problems," according to the media release."
"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."
(Gee... where have I heard THAT before??)
Anyway, you can read the whole article here.
This subject really boils my blood.
Soda in any form is bad for you. Diet soda is exponentially worse and more and more people are learning this.
The only healthy soda is seltzer water with no sodium. Add a squirt of lime. It'll be bubbly and it will taste good...
...and it won't make you diabetic.
Or you could just drink some regular water. Millions of years of evolution have proved that still works.
Oh, BTW, here's another "Before and During Pic" for you. I can't believe I EVER allowed myself to get that huge. Less than three months on a low-carb diet and this is what's happening.
You might be interested to know what I had for breakfast today. I eat a late breakfast, around 11:00 AM most days so I have two main meals with a couple small ones in between. This was today's brunch:
2 eggs + 1 egg white, scrambled and fried in butter (because cooking spray is also terrible for you)
5 natural casing sausage links
6 pencil-thin asparagus spears and 2 large whitecap mushrooms, sautéed in olive oil
about a tablespoon of ketchup (I don't actually measure)
Not exactly going hungry, am I?
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