Originally published August 21 2005
Diet sodas pack on pounds more than regular soft drinks
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
A new study shows diet soft drinks may contribute to obesity even more than regular soft drinks, and just one diet soft drink a day can increase the risk of becoming overweight by 41 percent.
People who drink diet soft drinks don't lose weight.
In fact, they gain weight, a new study shows.
The findings come from eight years of data collected by Sharon P. Fowler, MPH, and colleagues at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio.
Fowler reported the data at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association in San Diego.
"What didn't surprise us was that total soft drink use was linked to overweight and obesity," Fowler tells WebMD.
"What was surprising was when we looked at people only drinking diet soft drinks, their risk of obesity was even higher."
In fact, when the researchers took a closer look at their data, they found that nearly all the obesity risk from soft drinks came from diet sodas.
"There was a 41% increase in risk of being overweight for every can or bottle of diet soft drink a person consumes each day," Fowler says.
Fowler's team looked at seven to eight years of data on 1,550 Mexican-American and non-Hispanic white Americans aged 25 to 64.
Of the 622 study participants who were of normal weight at the beginning of the study, about a third became overweight or obese.
For each can of diet soft drink consumed each day, a person's risk of obesity went up 41%.
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