10 Bad Thing You Should Know About Soda Diet

Many diet sodas found in the various existing racks in stores. The drink is often put in the same frame with the other type of soft drink. Elsewhere, its seems present in the arrangement of diet food shelves.

Diet soda manufacturers claiming that their drink was sugar-free and lower the calories up to 140 calories than any other soft drink.

Also, diet soda is also an alternative for those who want to keep the sugar in their body. Diet Soda is very helpful when a desire to consume sweet beverages but fear the sugar. Diet soda is indeed low in sugar because to raise the sweetness; diet soda uses artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, saccharin, and sucralose.

But unfortunately, beyond the claims and alternative offer as a low-sugar drinks and low-calorie, diet soda contains ten bad things harmful if consumed within the long term.

1. Dull the nerves on tongue taste

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The reason of synthetic sweeteners using in the food industry because it is more economical than sugar. In the equivalent amount, artificial sweeteners can provide a sweet taste for sharper compared to sugar. Consuming diet soda in large quantities will potentially dull the senses of taste so not being able to feel the natural sweet as in the fruit.

Meanwhile, according to Dr. Brooke Alpert, a health practitioner and the author of best seller book The Sugar Detox, a kind of artificial sweeteners – aspartame, saccharin, and sucralose, stimulating excess insulin which increases the fat deposits that lead to weight gain.

2. Increase the weight 

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Definitely, drink diet is calorie-free, but it does not mean being able to lose weight. Research from the University of Texas for about a decade has found 70 percent greater risk increasing waistlines. It has to cause 500% risk more for people who acquired consume drink soda more than 1-2 served a day.

However, according to Dieticians from Minnesota, Cassie Bjork, the biggest cause is a psychology factor. When the body does not consume calories, a person can more easily spend two cheeseburgers or more than one piece of pizza. In fact, both are the high-calorie foods.

3. Increase the risk of type-2 diabetes

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According to research conducted the University of Minnesota, consuming a diet soda increases the risk of the metabolic syndrome of 36 percent. Metabolic syndrome is defined as a group of conditions of hypertension, increased Cholesterol, increased glucose levels, and enhances the magnitude of the waist circumference. Bjork says, people with this high syndrome risk exposed heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.

4. Diet Soda Has no nutritional

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Definitely, consuming diet soda did not enter calories in the body, but this drink also has no nutritional. Bjork says the best free-calories drinks is only fresh water. However, the water is imperative for many processes in the body. Replace water needs by consuming a diet soda is not a good idea.

5. Artificial sweeteners increase the risk of a headache

Recent studies on aspartame proving this sweetener can trigger headaches in some people. Still according to Bjork, he has some patients suffering from a migraine and pointed diet soda as the cause.

6. Cause of Teeth damage

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Based on research published in General Dentistry journal, consuming excess soda is the main vandal to damage the teeth.

This study examined the teeth of users of cocaine, metamfetamine, and diet soda. As a result third has the same level of teeth erosion. Risk factors in diet soda are citric acid, which weakens and damage the enamel coating each time consuming.

7. A dangerous Cocktail Mixer

Drink diet soda is often made into mixture in the cocktail. According to research from Northern Kentucky University, using diet soda as a mixed cocktail is more dangerous than high sugar beverages.

Research proves, cocktail mixed diet soda has a higher alcohol. As a result, consumers become drunk so fast. According to the researchers, this is due to the blood more quickly absorb the artificial sweetener than the original sweetener.

8. More ease to depression

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In research presented in the forum of the American Academy of Neurology, someone who consumes a diet soda is more ease to depression. People who regularly drink 1-4 cans of soda a day for ten years, have 30 percent greater risk to suffer from depression.

Researchers added, most risk incurred by someone who frequently consume diet drinks and fruit punches. Although it does not provide cause and effect, the results of research should be made into consideration.

9. It's Very Bad to the bone

Women who are over the 60 years are at risk of greater suffering from osteoporosis than men. Researchers from Tufts University found, consuming diet soda can increase the risk factor.

In such research, the woman who was found in consuming soda drinks having a bone mineral density was 4 percent lower at her hip. This research complements the study conducted in 2006 and published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. In the research, all the soda, not only diet soda, potentially made lower bone mineral density in women.

10. Risk of heart

Just eating diet soda a day can increase the risk of vascular disorders. The disease includes death vessel, stroke, or heart attack. It is based on research from the University of Miami and Columbia University.

In this research, 43 percent of respondents the consumers diet sodas have a greater tendency to suffer disorders of the blood vessels. Related things are not found on customary soda consumers. Even so, these results still need further research to draw conclusions on the health effects of diet soda. (*)

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