Posted on 07/20/2006 10:20:00 AM PDT by hispanarepublicana
(FOX NEWS) - Rabbi Marc Sack drank diet soft drinks, cycled about 70 miles a week, and limited sweets and he struggled with hunger, "a big issue for me was appetite control."
But when the weight wasn't coming off, he saw a dietitian who told him to stop the diet soda.
"that was a big surprise to me," said Sack. "I thought I was doing something great by only drinking diet coke, and she really caught me off guard with that one."
Jennifer Broder Katz is Rabbi Sack's food coach. She says artificial sweeteners like those found in diet sodas affect appetite for up to 12 hours, "it pushes us to overeat and then sneak that little extra candy or cookie later in the day." Katz added it increases the risk of being overweight
An American Diabetes Association presentation reported, over 1500 people were followed for up to 8 years. For every diet soda the participants drank, they were 65 percent more likely to become overweight and 41 percent more likely to become obese.
Even more shocking is that those numbers were worse than those who drank regular soda.
Katz said, "all my patients come back to me and ask oh my god how did i just lose 10 pounds? And soon as he stopped drinking the diet soda the weight started to fall."
Something that wasn't quite that easy for Rabbi Sack, "that was a hard thing for me to give up, I was drinking a few diet cokes a day." Now he's drinking water instead.
"I did not that gnawing feeling in the late afternoon or at 5 oclock when i was just waiting for dinner -- it made a big difference," said Sack. A difference for him of 25 pounds.
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I've made the switch to club soda or sparkling water completely. Sometimes I drink it with some lemon juice but I never add any sweetener to it.
I like the carbonation better than the sugar!
I'm going to try it. I have finally gotten used to my coffee without sugar (still put some cream in it). I think we are way beyond addicted to sweet tastes, and man is it hard to change!
susie
Absolutely not. Ingredients: Carbonated water and natural flavorings. 0 calories, 10mg sodium, 0 carbohydrates.
You could buy the plain sparkling water and drink that or add flavors to it, but Mrs. Chandler and I love the lemon-lime flavor. We go through a lot of it, and at 17¢ a can (regular price) we can afford to.
LOL! Once you go bubbly, you never go back.
Soda pop now tastes like syrup to me. I can tolerate an occasional cup of diet soda, but ice cold sparkling water actually quenches my thirst in the hot Arizona weather.
I drink my coffee black, but my wife uses Stevia extract as a sweetener. It is a natural sweetener and does not have some of the issues commonly associated with aspartame or Splenda. (no calories, no carbs, iirc).
I still put sugar in my coffee but would give it up before I give up the cream!)
Just give me bubbles in my water...they can keep the sweetener!
You ought to try a splash of apple juice or orange juice some time too.
I don't care for the aftertaste of stevia. I'll use it in tea, but in my opinion it ruins a good cup of coffee! ;)
To each his own, especially in the taste department.
susie
I agree coffee MUST have cream!
I have also found a few naturally sweet tasting teas. If you like a cinnomony taste Good Earth Original Sweet and Spicey is WONDERFUL either hot or cold. And Stash makes a Licorice Spice that's great too, unless of course, you hate licorice, like I guess most people do.
susie
Hmmm I will have to look for that then.
susie
The only juice I buy is tomato juice.
Carbonated unsweetened tea is not bad, though.
Television stations do a terrible job of copy editing. They didn't even use quotation marks in that sentence, either.
No...lazy parents (who think a square meal is a Happy Meal, and vice versa) and sedentary lifestyles (such as sitting in front of the Xbox for 6 hours) are more to blame for obesity than any single food or drink.
I think what they're trying to say is that the artificial sweeteners in diet sodas (likely aspartame) cause people to become hungry, which in turn causes them to eat, which could cause them to gain weight.
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