5 Reasons Why Diet Soda Is Bad For You !

5 Reasons Why Diet Soda Is Bad For You ! Is Diet Soda Good For You ? When taken at face value, diet soda seems like a health-conscious choice. It saves you the 140-plus calories you’d find in a sugary soft drink while still satisfying your urge for something sweet with artificial sweeteners like aspartame, saccharin, and sucralose.

But there’s more to this chemical cocktail than meets the eye.

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1. It confuses your body.

Artificial sweeteners have more intense flavor than real sugar, so over time products like diet soda dull our senses to naturally sweet foods like fruit, says Dr. Brooke Alpert, author of The Sugar Detox. 

Even more troubling, these sugar stand-ins have been shown to have the same effect on your body as sugar. “Artificial sweeteners trigger insulin, which sends your body into fat storage mode and leads to weight gain,” Alpert says.

2. It could lead to weight gain, not weight loss.

Diet soda is calorie-free, but it won’t necessarily help you lose weight. Researchers from the University of Texas found that over the course of about a decade, diet soda drinkers had a 70 percent greater increase in waist circumference compared with non-drinkers.

And get this: participants who slurped down two or more sodas a day experienced a 500 percent greater increase.

The way artificial sweeteners confuse the body may play a part, but another reason might be psychological, says Minnesota-based dietitian Cassie Bjork. When you know you’re not consuming any liquid calories, it might be easier to justify that double cheeseburger or extra slice of pizza.

3. It’s associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes.

Drinking one diet soda a day was associated with a 36 percent increased risk of metabolic syndrome and diabetes in a University of Minnesota study.

Metabolic syndrome describes a cluster of conditions (including high blood pressure, elevated glucose levels, raised cholesterol, and large waist circumference) that put people at high risk for heart disease, stroke, and diabetes, Bjork explains.

4. It has no nutritional value.

When you drink diet soda, you’re not taking in any calories—but you’re also not swallowing anything that does your body any good, either.

The best no-calorie beverage? Plain old water.

“Water is essential for many of our bodily processes, so replacing it with diet soda is a negative thing,” she says.

If it’s the fizziness you crave, try sparkling water.

5. It may hurt your heart.

Just one diet soft drink a day could boost your risk of having a vascular event such as stroke, heart attack or vascular death, according to researchers from the University of Miami and Columbia University.

Their study found that diet soda devotees were 43 percent more likely to have experienced a vascular event than those who drank none.

Regular soda drinkers did not appear to have an increased risk of vascular events. Researchers say more studies need to be conducted before definitive conclusions can be made about diet soda’s effects on health.