Drinking Diet Soda Is Bad For You
Diet soda may increase sugar cravings.
Drinking diet soda is bad for you. Drinking diet soda does not provide any direct health benefits. If you drink a diet soda that won t make up for eating a super size fast food meal says planells. Diet soda has been shown to increase cravings for sweets according to various studies including one published in 2019 in pediatric obesity.
According to research from the karolinska institute in sweden men who drank two or more servings of diet coke had a 23 higher risk of developing heart failure. Since diet soda is artificially sweetened it can change how you associate sweetness with caloric intake. Drinking diet soda may or may not keep your waistline slim but it may put you at an increased risk of heart disease diabetes and stroke.
However it may offer some people a way to reduce their consumption of sugary beverages. But he says diet soda can fit into your diet as long as you make other healthy food choices. It can harm your heart.
For example 2012 study had 2 500 men fill out food frequency questionnaires to measure how many soft drinks diet and regular they consumed each month.