If you’re drinking diet soda, it’s most likely because you want to lose weight, and most importantly, you want to get rid of your love handles. By now, you should know that ordinary soda drinks can cause your body to consume too much sugar, and therefore your waistline gets bigger. And soda is extremely harmful to our health because fatty syrups and fructose cause great harm to our health.
However, you and many other people think that diet soft drinks help them lose weight. Some say that this type of diet drink has none of the harmful effects of regular drinks. Some even consider it healthy.
For such people, we should clarify a few things. Diet soda is far from being considered a healthy drink. In fact, there were some studies that proved that diet soft drink consumers are more likely to be obese than regular soda drinkers.
There are many reasons why diet soda is worse than regular soda.
One reason for this is the use of synthetic sweeteners. These sweeteners increase the production of a storage hormone that increases the need for more sugar right after drinking that diet soda.
Another reason is that people who drink diet drinks believe that since they don’t get fat from soda, they have the flexibility to eat more. So they drink diet soda, which actually makes them fat. And this misconception makes them overeat, which directly causes them to store more calories.
That being said, if you want a healthy body, you should avoid sodas, whether they’re diet or regular, except in situations where you really can’t stay away from them. As long as you don’t drink soda, you have a good chance of staying healthy and not getting fat.
You probably wonder whether there are any alternatives to diet soda.
Probably the best choice you can make is to drink plain water with lemon and iced tea without any sweeteners. There are many varieties of tea that you can choose from. There is green tea, white or black tea. Drinking tea will increase the antioxidants in your body and hence you will remain healthy and your weight will start reducing. Of course, if you prefer your tea to be a little sweeter, there are some natural sweeteners you can use. One of them is called stevia and it is a great sweetener.
Source by Jerome Andrews
