Update on Diet Foods

Time has published a new article, "Do Diet Foods Lead to Weight Gain?", on an experiment using rats who are fed diet foods that is related to a previous story I linked about diet sodas being linked to obesity. When rats ate diet foods and non-diet foods that tasted the same, this tricked their bodies into not being able to eat the right amount of food to get the calories they needed.

Diet Soft Drinks Linked to Obesity

As reported from a study at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, diet sodas are worse than regular sodas. I'm assuming so far that the "regular" sodas are sweetened with high fructose corn syrup, which has it's own metabolic issues, rather than sucrose cane sugar.

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.