Grabbing a diet soda to avoid gaining weight might just have the opposite effect from what you think.
It turns out that drinking diet soda could be causing you to gain those unwanted inches to your waistline instead of actually losing weight.
A new study out of the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio looked at the drinking habits of adults and followed them for 12 years to see what would happen. The results are pretty surprising.
Diet soda drinkers ended up gaining more inches to their waistline than those who didn't drink diet sodas. Overall, the waistlines of those who drank diet sodas expanded 3 times more than those who drank water, juice or even regular sodas. And those drinking 2 or more diet sodas a day gained 6 times more in the waist area.
This is especially concerning since extra fat in the waistline means more fat surrounding your internal organs. And this can increase your chances of having a heart attack or stroke.
Although this sounds a bit odd, that drinking diet sodas can actually make you gain weight, scientist think this might have to do with what you body is thinking as you down that artificially sweetened beverage. The thought is that your body recognizes the sweetness so starts looking for the calories. It doesn't find them in the drink so you start going for the sweetened snacks. And that adds on the pounds. The bad part about this is that you don't even realize you're doing it.
As the researchers put it, diet sodas may be free of calories but not of consequences.
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