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http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20050613/drink-more-diet-soda-gain-more-weight
The post about diet cola's? These drinks have been out for years but don't seem to help anyone loose weight
Maybe just having sweet tasting stuff make's you crave more sweet stuff with high calories
Take my advice next time you fancy something sweet just suck on a lemon, The craving will soon disappear!!
Drink More Diet Soda, Gain More Weight?
Overweight Risk Soars 41% With Each Daily Can of Diet Soft Drink
By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Charlotte E. Grayson Mathis, MD
June 13, 2005 -- People who drink diet soft drinks don't lose weight. In fact, they gain weight, a new study shows.
The findings come from eight years of data collected by Sharon P. Fowler, MPH, and colleagues at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio. Fowler reported the data at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association in San Diego.
"What didn't surprise us was that total soft drink use was linked to overweight and obesity," Fowler tells WebMD. "What was surprising was when we looked at people only drinking diet soft drinks, their risk of obesity was even higher."
In fact, when the researchers took a closer look at their data, they found that nearly all the obesity risk from soft drinks came from diet sodas.
The post about diet cola's? These drinks have been out for years but don't seem to help anyone loose weight
Maybe just having sweet tasting stuff make's you crave more sweet stuff with high calories
Take my advice next time you fancy something sweet just suck on a lemon, The craving will soon disappear!!
Drink More Diet Soda, Gain More Weight?
Overweight Risk Soars 41% With Each Daily Can of Diet Soft Drink
By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Charlotte E. Grayson Mathis, MD
June 13, 2005 -- People who drink diet soft drinks don't lose weight. In fact, they gain weight, a new study shows.
The findings come from eight years of data collected by Sharon P. Fowler, MPH, and colleagues at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio. Fowler reported the data at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association in San Diego.
"What didn't surprise us was that total soft drink use was linked to overweight and obesity," Fowler tells WebMD. "What was surprising was when we looked at people only drinking diet soft drinks, their risk of obesity was even higher."
In fact, when the researchers took a closer look at their data, they found that nearly all the obesity risk from soft drinks came from diet sodas.
If that is all people drink they deserve problems.
Dumb test!!!!!! OR the entire report isn't there...
Soda never did anything for sweets for me. If I eat sweets I want more like a cookie or something.Not normal cravings I want the entire box if I had it.
That is why most time I love dried prunes..love them!! So when I have a sweet craving I eat two of them and then I am fine most times. I love dried apricots also but they do it for me.
We are now drinking mainly Solo (diet) which is a lemon juice based soft drink which is not very sweet and is quite refreshing. I also drink water and coffee - finally without sweetener - but almost every time I go past the tap I will grab some water ( no chemicals) - but I still like my coffee of sodas.
I took Chromium for a couple of years and that seems to have cut my cravings back on sweets a lot as I was a "one cookie or candy is not enough" person too. I have not needed it for a while but if I find I slip back into that habit I will get straight back on to it as it really does help me a lot.
The strange thing is when I have had a soda or two - especially the lemon one I feel more like some nuts or protein - guess it is not too sweet to excite that response in me - at least not yet.