Diet Soda Not Bad For You
5 reasons diet soda may be bad for you.
Diet soda not bad for you. If you love diet coke or any other diet soda we might have some bad news for you. Diet soda uses artificial sweeteners such as saccharin or aspartame to achieve the same sweet taste. But that s not all.
Another study found that diet soda consumption was associated with higher esrd end stage renal disease risk there is mounting evidence that seemingly proves diet coke leads to poor kidney health. So while choosing diet soda over regular soda may seem like a healthy decision there s more to the drink than meets the taste bud. According to several different studies even though diet drinks supposedly consist of zero net calories they can have a lot of negative effects including weight gain kidney problems increased risk of diabetes and increased risk of depression.
If you drink five or six diet sodas a day. And it isn t even related to caffeine. Healthier low calorie choices abound including water skim milk and unsweetened tea or coffee.
Here s what you need to know. But the attitude in the nutrition community isn t just that you shouldn t drink soda regular or diet. Diet soda is calorie free but it won t necessarily help you lose weight researchers from the university of texas found that over the course of about a decade diet soda drinkers had a 70 greater.
When you drink diet soda every day you aren t doing your body any favors especially those kidneys. Diet soda may improve fatty liver and does not appear to increase heartburn or the risk of cancer. Although switching from regular soda to diet soda may save you calories it s not yet clear if it s effective for preventing obesity and related health problems in the long term.
He recommends starting with baby steps rather than going cold turkey. Breaking the diet soda habit if you choose to do so can be tough says planells. Diet coke might not be so bad for your health after all by hannah sparks.