Ditch soda for your health
Saturday - January29 , 2011 Filed in: Body
Does just the sight of these soda’s make your mouth water? If you don’t know why you should give up soda today, please read on. If you do know why you should give up soda today then, just do it and avoid the rhetoric.
Substituting a soda with artificial sweeteners for a sugary beverage can help lower calorie intake, but there’s no evidence it helps you keep off the pounds in the long-term, a recent review of hundreds of studies on non-calorie sweeteners, appetite and food intake published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition indicated.
In fact, two recent studies found that being a diet soda junkie could actually put you at a greater risk of weight gain. Normal weight people who drank 3 servings or more of diet soda a day — at least 21 weekly servings — were at almost double the risk for becoming overweight or obese after seven to eight years compared to people who skipped diet drinks, according to researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
As a substitute for diet soda try plain or mineral water, or coffee or tea made with up to 1 gram of sugar per ounce (or 2 teaspoons per 8 ounce cup).
For those who have health or other concerns and want to curb their diet soda habit try plain sparkling water (add fresh ginger or mint to make ginger ale); sparkling flavored waters made with no additives; and plain water spruced up with cucumber, orange, lemon or lime slices.
In fact, two recent studies found that being a diet soda junkie could actually put you at a greater risk of weight gain. Normal weight people who drank 3 servings or more of diet soda a day — at least 21 weekly servings — were at almost double the risk for becoming overweight or obese after seven to eight years compared to people who skipped diet drinks, according to researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
As a substitute for diet soda try plain or mineral water, or coffee or tea made with up to 1 gram of sugar per ounce (or 2 teaspoons per 8 ounce cup).
For those who have health or other concerns and want to curb their diet soda habit try plain sparkling water (add fresh ginger or mint to make ginger ale); sparkling flavored waters made with no additives; and plain water spruced up with cucumber, orange, lemon or lime slices.
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