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Diet soda cut fats, helps more than Water for Weight Loss

May 31, 2014 Posted by Contributor

You think many times before taking a sip of diet soda, thinking of its probable side effects on your weight. But a new study has come as a good news to many especially the teens. The study says drinking diet soda may actually help you in losing weight. And yes diet soda aids better than water.

Does Diet soda cut extra fats? Dr. Jim Hill says he often faces queries from patients in his weight loss program at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Health and Wellness Center.
DIET SODA WEIGHT LOSS WATER

For the study, Hill involved approximately 300 adults and divided them into two groups. While the first group was asked to continue drinking diet, the second group-referred as the water group- went cold turkey.

Both groups received intensive coaching on successful techniques for weight loss. The average weight of the participants was over 200 pounds at the start of the study.

“The results, to us, were not at all surprising,” says Hill.

The groups banned from drinking diet sodas managed to lose nine  pounds over 12 weeks, those allowed to continue drinking diet soda lost, on average, 13 pounds in the same time period. That’s a 4-pound difference.

Experts say soda and other sugary drinks are the number-one source of added sugar in the American diet.

On an average American consumes 45 gallons of soft drinks in a year. More than a third of all U.S. adults and nearly 17 percent of children between the ages of 2 and 19 are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A 2012 report in the Journal of Health Economics shows that obesity accounts for nearly $200 billion a year in U.S. medical spending which is more than 20 percent of national healthcare costs.

Also consuming just one soda a day boosts an adult’s probability of being obese by 27 percent and a child’s by 55 percent, while a soda or two a day increases the risk of diabetes by 26 percent.

The study, funded by the American Beverage Association, was published in the journal Obesity.

 

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