2006-10-02 08:20:26 · 12 answers · asked by bill d 1 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
Sodas in large amounts (3 or more per day) can be bad for your health for a number of reasons. However diet sodas contain Aspartame which is very bad for your health as well as your ablility to learn. There are 92 known things that can happen by ingesting aspartame and they are all bad.
Read the information of the sites below and decide for your self.
2006-10-02 08:37:01 · answer #1 · answered by pinelake302 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, diet soda does not make you fat. Look at the ingredients. It has nothing to make you fat. It has NO sugar. As for the carbonation theory, that's what makes you burp. I believe people get fat when they drink diet soda because they drink it with their Big Mac and fries. They do not feel as guilty about having something bad when they are not getting any calories from the soda. I've made that rationalization myself.
2006-10-02 15:33:47 · answer #2 · answered by dkwkbmn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't listen to the rest of the crap information you've been receiving...yes diet soda can make you fat, but not because of carbonation, extra sugar or caffeine. Carbonation may make you feel fuller but once you burb that goes away. Sodium can make you retain water but again given a couple of days you will excrete the excess weight, notice I said weight not fat (water retention). However if you are on a carb diet although diet soda contains no carbs it does taste sweet which can trick your body into believing you are consuming sugar which in turn shuts down the fat burning process while the body attempts to digest sugars that aren't there. When it finds none the spleen will release stored sugars and burn them slowing down or stopping the weight loss process altogether.
2006-10-02 15:43:59 · answer #3 · answered by ajax138 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey Bill
i let you in on a secret, you only need to know two word "Aspartame" it can kill you, and "Soda" its never good, compared to Tea and Water. and finally YES it does make you fat even if its 0 calories.
here is what i always do when i crave for a sugary drink, i would pour half the can into my water bottle and the other half diluted with water and top with lots of ice. at least it will water down the guilt of drinking a soda. cheers
2006-10-02 15:47:28 · answer #4 · answered by Isaac 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
diet soda is full of artificial sweeteners, and they cannot be used by our bodies. Nevertheless the don't seep through either... So somewhere in your body the artificial sweetener is stuck between your cells. You may seem to loose weight if you go from your soda to the diet version, but in the long run it will harm you even more. The artificial stuff can be massaged out of one persons body, but the massage will hurt.
I say artificial is no good for anything we consume, I try to leave all of them out, but all is hard. Very hard.
2006-10-02 15:31:21 · answer #5 · answered by kobe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Diet drinks have empty calories and if you don't burn it off it turns to fat. even though it says 0 cals it has a lot of sugar in it
2006-10-02 15:29:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Diet soda contains more sugar then regular soda . just as diet foods contain more sodium then home made .
2006-10-02 15:26:50 · answer #7 · answered by StarShine G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm aware of it only hindering weight loss for two reasons 1. caffeine 2. sodium. But as far as making you fat? I don't believe that to be true.
2006-10-02 15:30:49 · answer #8 · answered by Heather S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can. It has carbination. My dad used to drink Diet Mt. Dew all the time and he stoped and he's gone down 3 pants sizes. So, I'd have to say yest.
2006-10-02 15:23:43 · answer #9 · answered by Aubrey's mommy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would not say fat - but it can tell you it does hinder the weight loss process due to the caffeine
2006-10-02 15:28:47 · answer #10 · answered by LaDonna J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋