Is Diet Soda Healthy? The Best Secrets Exposed Recently, I went on a long road trip to visit friends. During our return down a lonely stretch of highway, we stopped at a fast food restaurant. Usually, this isn’t something we do. But it was easy enough to fashion a salad wrap out of ingredients on the menu. Also, there were a few passable options for kids. Finally, it’s time to add a drink. Water? Only tap, which I’m wary of in areas I’m not familiar with. The fountain features several kinds of soft drinks, including lemonade, and two diet options. I choose the tap water. However, as we sit nearby, I notice that those diet sodas are seeing a lot of traffic from other patrons. People mull over the non-diet options, and apparently decide …show more content…
Any shift in perception you have about diet soda is purely in the branding. Ten Reasons You Should NEVER Drink Diet Soda I understand and appreciate healthy skepticism surrounding the hype against artificial sweeteners. But what I’ve discovered is that there are many reasons to avoid diet soda. Conversely, I have yet to find any reason at all to regularly drink it. Here are ten secrets about diet soda you may have never known. 1. It Makes You Gain Weight. If nothing else, you should avoid diet soda because it does not do what it suggests. It is not part of a healthy diet, and it is not a beverage that will help you lose weight. In fact, it even affects babies born to mothers who drink it during pregnancy. One study finds that those infants are more likely to be overweight after they’re born. Yes, studies suggest that it impacts weight prenatally. We can see that artificial sweeteners have an adverse impact on our weight at every stage of life. In older adults, it is linked to larger waist circumference (abdominal fat). No matter your age, or how slim you’ve been, drinking diet soda for a while will change that. It’s possible that it will contribute to an increase in fat even if you don’t consume excess