Can Diet Coke actually make you gain weight?!
Can Diet Coke actually make you gain weight?
a friend of mine told me recently that because your tongue tastes something sweet it sends a message to your brain telling it to produce insulin, but because the sweeteners are artificial it leads to an excess of insulin in the body, which makes your body store all your calories as fat. any truth at all in this?
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Yes, insulin is produced when you eat sweets, however, it is in such small amounts that unless you are a diabetic, it will not negatively or positively effect you. Also what I know is that fat is good for you, a relative amount. Your brain is encased in fat, fat is what you burn for energy, essentially, you need some fat in your body. If you don't have any fat, you will start burning muscle when you exercise. Also, consuming artificial sweeteners is very bad for you, as opposed to regular sugar. Artifical sweeteners are made in a lab, with lots of chemicals that are very complex and your body cannot break down. Thus, they simply go through your body, or worse, get lodged somewhere until your system purges itself.
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36 Years at Perritt Laboratories, PhD in Advanced Human Chemistry
It has a lot of salt in it, that's for sure. Water is best.
It will make you retain water thats for sure. Also, it rots your teeth real fast. Your better off sticking to water or fresh brewed tea.
My co workers and I recently had this discussion, and we had all heard that diet soda tends to make you gain weight when you drink it a lot. I'm not sure how just a little would affect you. My daughter drinks gallons of diet coke and has a hard time keeping her weight down even though she barely eats.
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Nutrsweet will increase your appetite. The best thing you can drink is lots of water.
Diet Coke has no calories to be turned into fat. The others are right also, it's high in sodium so you'll retain water(which really IS the best beverage for you).
It is the caffeine in diet coke that affects weight. Caffeine affects the kidneys' ability to remove excess water from your body. Most people carry an extra 10 to 15 pounds of water weight. Caffeine is an anti diuretic. Stop drinking any soda/pop with caffeine and you will see a weight loss without any exercise. Though your friend is correct, it is not the greatest downside to drinking diet coke. Try coke free or just juices, water, and sports drinks.
Any food or drink has kilojoules aside from water. So depending on how much you drink will depend on how much weight you put on. Diet anything can put on weight, just depends how much you choose to have.
There is a lot of "research" that purports to link Coke products to all sorts of maladies. Further, there are a lot of urban legends (such as this one) that are passed along because they seem to make sense.
Diet soda is approved for consumption by diabetics. If it really stimulated the production of insulin, there is no way this would be the case.
Further, the caffeine in diet Coke (and other diet beverages) actually stimulates metabolism, which can help you lose real weight (if not water weight).
I heard that diet coke makes you crave more sweets such as candy, donuts, pies and such. In that way it aids to gaining weight. But since it has no calories it can not directly make you gain weight.