Diet Coke Weight Gain Study
By looking at the measurement of participants waists it was found that people who reported occasional use drinking less than one diet soda a day waist circumference increased almost 2 inches.
Diet coke weight gain study. Both studies and experts say conflicting things about the health and weight implications of consuming artificially sweetened soft drinks but i suspected it wasn t good for me. A two year study in of 164 children published in the journal of the american college of nutrition found that increases in diet soda consumption were significantly greater for overweight and subjects who gained weight as compared to normal weight subjects. Even so diet soda drinkers had higher rates of obesity from the start of the study 45 obese than non drinkers 27 8.
I stopped drinking diet coke for a month to see how it affected me and i realized i wasn t as reliant on it as i thought. In one study participants who started out normal weight and drank three diet sodas a day were twice as likely to be overweight or obese eight years later as their non diet soda drinking peers. In a recent search of a popular web browser 49 of the first 50 hits were for stories warning diet soda drinkers that the beverages might.
One study found that substituting asb for sugar sweetened beverages or fruit juices was associated with a 5 to 7 per. One study in 749 adults found that the waist circumference gain of people who consumed diet soda daily was nearly four times greater than non consumers over a 10 year period. Diet coke linked to weight gain according to new australian research.
The researchers adjusted for these differences in the study but noted that these are precisely the people who are most likely to replace sugar sweetened soda with diet drinks in an effort to lose weight. Baseline bmi z score and year 2 diet soda consumption predicted 83 1 of the variance. Doorway to weight gain shouts another.
I m a diet coke fiend and at the end of 2019 i was drinking a can most days.