People who consume artificially sweetened diet drinks do not have an increased desire or intake of sugary or fatty foods, according to new research.
This has been a hotly debated topic in recent years. Does Diet Soda increase urges for sugar? Or does it benefit the consumer by decreasing the calories he or she is taking in? I like this research article, but I will warn you! Studies will likely continue to come out with mixed reviews. It's very difficult to conduct studies on nutrition because it is so multifaceted.
So what do I say? Everything in moderation :)
It's funny, because I just read this right before I clicked here:
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Reminds me of all the coffee studies, too. One day, there's a new one that says drinking coffee will kill you in your sleep tonight, then the next morning, there is a new one that says drinking coffee fights off cancer. Or, "One glass of wine a night fights disease"/"One glass of wine a night increases chance of heart disease by 300%." I am just going to stick to my two or three cokes a month diet I've had since late high school, drink alcohol moderately (again, two or three times a month), and avoid coffee because it screws up my system. Everything in moderation, definitely, but I do feel like if one is going to drink the odd soda, they might as well just drink the real thing and enjoy it. Now for those drinking two cokes a day, I don't get how they aren't dead. That's like 100 grams of sugar a day just from liquids. And if it's two diet sodas a day, that's a whole mess of weirdness getting dropped into your body every 24 hours. So yeah, moderation, unless you've got those two packs of cigarettes a day and bacon for every meal and live to 90 genes, in which case, I guess, do that.
The best guide for me has generally been, do I feel bad after eating or drinking this? If yes, this was probably bad for me, and I should probably avoid it.
Sorry for the fluramble. The succinct version of my comment would have simply said, "I agree with you, everything in moderation."