Does diet coke help you lose weight or is it just less fatty than regular coke?

Answer 1

if you are doing this to conduct an experiment and you kept everything else equal (caloric intake) and just replaced drinking regular coke with diet coke, you may temporarily lose weight depending on how many regular cokes you used to drink per day. each can of regular coke is 140 calories. if you drank 2 cokes per day that's a savings of 1,400 calories per week (assuming a 5 day work week).

now that being said, just bc diet coke has zero calories doesn't mean you can drink as many as you want. the artificial sweetener in diet coke is proven to not be good for you in large quantities. there was also a study that said the sweetness tricks your brain into making up for the calories in other ways, which is why i said earlier if you keep all else equal.

so from a pure calorie standpoint when comparing the two in a vacuum, yes in theory you could lose weight, but in reality, lose weight simply by buring more calories than you consume.

Answer 2

The invention of diet coke is not for the purpose of reducing body weight, as it is not a weight control or weight managment product.

It is a product to meet the more and more health conscious consumers where they love to see the word "diet" and "0 calories". This make them feel less guilty when consuming the product.

Thus, it will increase the company revenue and profit when the consumers drink more as, it is "diet".

If you compare to regular coke, yes, definately less fatty or less prone in weight gain.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

No, no, and no.

Diet coke doesn't help you lose weight, because the sweetners in it stimulate the appetite and make you more hungry.

Diet coke doesn't have any fat, but neither does regular coke. Diet coke has no sugar, so it doesn't have calories, but the artificial sweetners in it make you hungry and the high sodium content causes you to retain water, and therefore be fatter.

Answer 5

The only thing diet coke does, is that it has no sugar. New research is stating that people who drink diet coke are now more prone to gain weight than those people who drink regular soda. i would change to regular, but I was raised on diet soda and have drank it my whole life. People who drink regular soda say that diet soda has a bad aftertaste, but since I'm so used to diet soda, regular soda gives me the bad aftertaste.

Answer 6

Stay away from the diet coke. There is not any fat in either diet or regular coke but, it is best to drink water instead. Drinking diet coke makes you crave carbs.

Answer 7

Diet coke has 0 -1 calories per 12 oz. Reg coke has about 140-160 cal/12 oz. All carbonated drinks keep you retaining water especially if they have sodium - evn ifit is just 5%, To lose weight, drink water.

Answer 8

Soda doesn't have fat in them. Instead they contain sugar so it adds on to your weight. Diet Coke just have less sugar than regular Coke. Too much sugar makes you gain weight. Just like eating ice cream and cheesecakes.

Answer 9

A lot of obese people drink Diet Coke because it tastes sweeter than regular. It also makes you crave sugar, so it definitely doesn´t help you lose weight.

Answer 10

It's not about fat content (sodas don't have fat).

It's about sugar. Diet coke has artificial sweetners while real coke has "real" sugar.

Both are bad - diet is worse as far as I'm concerned because it pretends to give you a health benefit.

If you really want to lose weight, cut out sodas altogether.