...I am never content with what the news people tell me, I must check it out myself and see 1) if it's true; and 2) why it is.
So we've all heard the old saw about how diet sodas "make" you gain weight, which is physically impossible but they all say it anyway. A friend of mine just posted it again on her Facebook, and I don't like to get confrontational on other peoples' walls, so I am posting my response here:
Uh, bull####.
And WebMD backs me up.
I have always suspected that people who drink diet sodas are obese because they think a zero-calorie soda will cancel out the other garbage they stuff their faces with.
Not that artificial sweeteners are a good thing, and soda isn't the best way to hydrate your body, but that is not what's making you fat. The triple cheese and pepperoni pizza you had for dinner last night, however...
This is under Conspiracies because I think the media makes us retarded, and junk science takes on a life of its own, and I think they do it on purpose. Some dork wants grant money to fund his crackpot ideas, he sends out a press release, and a bunch of lazy "journalists" report it as news, causing us to "think" stupid things like "zero-calorie soda makes you obese".
So we've all heard the old saw about how diet sodas "make" you gain weight, which is physically impossible but they all say it anyway. A friend of mine just posted it again on her Facebook, and I don't like to get confrontational on other peoples' walls, so I am posting my response here:
Uh, bull####.
And WebMD backs me up.
I have always suspected that people who drink diet sodas are obese because they think a zero-calorie soda will cancel out the other garbage they stuff their faces with.
Popkin calls this the “Big Mac and Diet Coke” mentality.
Not that artificial sweeteners are a good thing, and soda isn't the best way to hydrate your body, but that is not what's making you fat. The triple cheese and pepperoni pizza you had for dinner last night, however...
This is under Conspiracies because I think the media makes us retarded, and junk science takes on a life of its own, and I think they do it on purpose. Some dork wants grant money to fund his crackpot ideas, he sends out a press release, and a bunch of lazy "journalists" report it as news, causing us to "think" stupid things like "zero-calorie soda makes you obese".