I Love Diet Soda !
Writing by forestthornbarg on Monday, 13 of July , 2009 at 11:06 am
People who want to reduce the use of sugar and lose weight diet sodas are marketed towards them.
Various Types of artificial sweeteners are used to impart sweet flavour to diet soda and some even use sugar with other artificial sweeteners. Opinion is of many types about the taste of these drinks. Many think that the taste of only sugar drink is best. Many people say that diet drinks leaves a taste after use. Others feel that diet soda has no bitter aftertaste and that drinks sweetened by high fructose corn syrup an over-sweet aftertaste.
Cyclamates were the oldest artificial sweeteners. Many had the opinion that these sodas had a better taste than diet sodasthat followed. In 1970 the FDA banned the use of cyclamates in the US. They caused cancer in lab animals. Though the information is known but cyclamates are still used in some countries all over the world, especially in diet soda.
Then producers of America began using saccharin. But saccharin was believed by users have a chemical aftertaste. Coca-Cola produced Tab by suppling a little amount of sugar. Though a ban was put on saccharin as a carcinogen in 1977 by FDA but this ban was removed as the experiments were over. This was lifted in 1991, but nearly every diet soda had shifted to using aspartame which is now the most common sweetener.
Two fresh sweeteners have come on the market sucralose called Splenda and Sunett or Ace K used with more or less amount of aspartame and other artificial sweeteners inspite of using alone. These have come into use by some smaller beverage producers.Currently aspartame is believed by the users to be the cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome type illnesses.
Most users comments that drinks with these sweeteners taste more like natural sugar.Due to it’s bad flavour and unknown risks critics are sceptical .
Effectiveness of diet sodas as a weight loss tool has also come under a cloud with health concerns of sugar substitutes and overuse of caffeine.
Consumers who take large amounts of regular soda may have weight loss after turning towards diet soda.Animal studies prove that artificial sweeteners results in weight gain. The sweetness of the taste induces an insulin response, causing blood sugar to store in tissues but because blood sugar does not increase with artificial sugars, hypoglycemia can occur and people eat more at the next meal. After time rats given sweeteners has increased caloric consumption causing weight and fat gain.
So, the jury on how helpful diet soda is to losing weight is still out.
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