Posted on 01/18/2014 4:20:41 AM PST by ETL
This is a ridiculous study. The researchers report that obese people who drank diet soda ate more. Ok, so what? Then they went way off base with their cause and effect. How can they make the correlation when they couldn’t find the same effect in people of normal weight? This is a huge flaw, in addition to offering absolutely no proof that some undefined sweet sensors in the brain force you to consume more calories to make up for the lack of sugar from regular soda. How does this happen? They never bother to tell us. I don’t know about you, but these are two huge red flags that should have ensured that this “study” never saw the light of day. But there it is. The grant money industry causes incredible things to happen.
Sure. If true, then a banana is also loaded with neurotoxin. Do you believe that as well.
You may be on to something. Many artificial sweeteners were never tested for insulin responses for non-Type 1 Diabetes. They work for patients who do not produce insulin, but have been found to increase insulin production in others. I suspect those with insulin resistence will continue to gain weight with certain diet sodas.
When I switched over to low carb, I cut out diet sodas. I observed that they stopped the ketosis process and slowed down weight loss.
If they want to convince me, they need to show skinny people who start drinking Diet Coke start gaining weight, while skinny people who do NOT start drinking Diet Coke maintain their weight.
Personally, I can drink Diet Coke at various times of the day and not be hungry until dinner time, or at least no more hungry than I am if I drink water under the same circumstances.
I think this study really shows fat people are more likely to drink Diet Coke than skinny people - what a shock!
That would depend on the concentration and exact form of aspartame in bananas vs diet soda. Perhaps the aspartame in bananas is less absorbed than with sodas. I looked, but I didn’t find much on bananas and aspartame.
Are you sure it was cm and not mm?? ;-)
Yes, you have to watch out for oxalates - especially if you are consuming a lot of calcium.
The banana serves as an excellent example for why you shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet when it comes to aspartame. Even so, there are people who will continue to argue that consuming a banana is dangerous to your health. Silly, isn't it? If you eat a 4 oz. piece of cooked chicken with a glass of red wine, apple juice, or tomato juice, you will get about ten times more phenylalanine and aspartic acid than the amount found in a Diet Coke, and two to three times more methanol. Do you really think a small piece of cooked chicken and a glass of apple juice is toxic?
The fear of aspartame is irrational.
Yep, I’m with you.
IMO it’s another attempt to convince people some outside factor is responsible for their weight, instead of their own habits.
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