«This study's actual results do not show that drinking
diet beverages causes cardiovascular events among any population.
Not exact matches
«Recent research on humans published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition earlier this year indicates that drinking
diet beverages does not
cause people to overeat or to increase their intake of sweet foods and
beverages.
This is an abstract of an observational study that can establish only association but does not prove causality; this is confirmed by the authors themselves in the press release when they state ``... so we can not say that low kilojoule
beverage cause these problems... there may be other factors about people who drink more
diet drinks that could explain the connection.»
«Discussion around the role of
beverages in the Australian
diet needs to move away from a singular focus on sugar when it comes to the
causes of obesity and instead look at the impact of total
diet, including «treat» foods,» concludes Parker.
«Overweight and obesity are
caused by an imbalance between calories consumed from all foods and
beverages (total
diet) and calories burned (physical activity).
In addition to hyperactivity and inattention, heavily sugared
beverages also impact childhood obesity, notes Ickovics, and sugar - sweetened
beverages are a leading
cause of added calories in the
diets of obese children.
Diet soda might not
CAUSE weight gain, but it is correlated with being overweight and unhealthy — people who consume
diet soda often assume they are making healthier choices about their
beverage (which they are), but as a result are consuming MORE food calories than they expected.
While there is no clear reason why these
beverages might increase the risk of metabolic syndrome and diabetes, researches have found that drinking
diet beverages, particularly
diet soda, may be associated with an over-consumption of other foods - ultimately
causing weight gain, insulin resistance, and diabetes.
Beverages like
diet soda mess with your brain's ability to regulate calorie intake,
causing you to feel hungrier than normal so you eat more total calories.
Then during the day, steer clear of high - calorie coffee drinks and other
beverages that
cause weight gain and use
diet - friendly methods to boost your energy instead.
Bray also discusses the fact that sweetened
beverages in general, as compared to sweeteners added to solid foods, have a greater tendency to
cause weight gain, citing a randomized, double - blind European study by Rabin and others, which found that drinking calorically sweetened
beverages resulted in greater weight gain over the ten - week study than did drinking
diet drinks.8 Since the
beverages in this study were sweetened with sucrose, Bray called for a second randomized controlled study to compare sucrose - and HFCS - sweetened
beverages.
Carbonated
beverages, including
diet soda, may
cause stomach pain after surgery.
Sugary
beverages are the leading
cause of added calories in children's
diets, and that's a serious problem in a country where 1 out of 3 school - age children is already overweight or obese.