Thursday, September 13, 2012

Replacing soda with water helps control weight


Sugary drinks, like soda, don't produce the same satiety, or satisfied feeling, that eating solid food produces. People who cut back on sugary drinks can help control their weight. Replacing soda with plain water, as a part of your weight loss strategy, results in average weight losses of up to 15 pounds.
By the way, diet soda is not the way to go.
Diet soda will not help you lose weight. Diet soda is artificially blackened water mixed with synthetic chemicals. It is one of the biggest health scams. When we drink diets soda with sweet taste, our body expects calories to follow, and when this doesn't occur it leads to distortions in our biochemistry that may actually lead to weight gain.  

Why? Artificial sweeteners in diet soda can increase our appetite and stimulate fat storage.

26 comments:

  1. Yeh I don't know if this stat is true. I just lost 57 lbs drinking plenty of diet soda. I think somewhere, someplace, someone powerful decided diet soda should be maligned and suddenly we have all these bad stories about it. But water is good for you because it is "H2O" that means two molecules of oxygen to ONE hydrogen. That means that you get a ton of oxygen directly released into your blood stream. That revs up your metabolism (just like when you exercise you get more o2)

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  2. We know that soft drinks have no redeeming health qualities, yet we reach for them anyway. We know that drinking sugar and calorie filled soda leads to weight gain yet the average American consumes 50 gallons of diet and regular soda each year.

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  3. I agree. Skip the soda. Water is best.

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  4. I don't drink soda, period. I hate pop of all kinds and instead drink lots of water, milk, and juice. I've never broken a bone- and I swear it's because I took in so much calcium from milk as a child. I'm a huge milk fan!

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  5. Drinking too much soda has been linked to a higher risk of obesity due to its calorie and sugar content. Most sodas contain about 150 calories per serving,

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  6. Soda is the Devil! That's an overstatement but once I stopped drinking diet soda, I was able to drop 20 lbs.

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  7. For years we were made to believe that diet soda is good for health. It satiates the taste buds and does not contribute to weight gain. But only recently these claims are being challenged. People are realizing the mistake of believing in the advertisements and consuming these harmful products.

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  8. More and more articles on the harmful effects of sugary drinks and diet soda should come out. The younger generation who are more prone to obesity should be aware of the side effects of consuming diet soda.

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  9. Water is the best drink. You can mix natural substances like honey in it to add taste. Moreover, honey is good for our health too. Learning to say no to sodas and aerated drinks is a big challenge that we have to overcome.

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  10. Soda just fuels your need to get more sugar in your system, even diet soda. I try to drink as much water as I can. Sometimes a tea or lemonade are OK. But you have to treat your body for the long-term... plan plan plan. Water water water. - jj

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  11. I often times find it hard to stop drinking soda as I find it very refreshing, energizing and most importantly... tasty. However I know it is bad for my health and my teeth and therefore I must start substituting it for water.

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  12. It still amazes me as to how much a difference cutting out soda will make. And the body will start to crave water after a while and you will feel so much better.

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  13. I admit that I do drink soda occasionally but it is not my beverage of choice. I try to drink water or plain tea instead.

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  14. It’s not funny how much soda i have and in turn consume insane amounts of sugar. Thanks for making me realize this should not be done. I hope this will turn out to be beneficial for me as far as fat cutting is concerned.

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  15. I had replaced my soda, but replaced it with diet soda. Thanks for opening my eyes and letting me know it’s not the way to cut weight. Thanks for a great post. Keep bursting such myths all the time.

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    1. It means don't drink soda, period. Diet soda is terrible for health for possible weight loss.

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  16. Yes, this is true. It is also easy to implement.

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  17. Not only is diet soda not helping you lose weight, it has countless negative effects on your health.

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  18. I don't drink diet soda anymore, except on the rare occasion when I'm out and doing something special - like once every six months or so. I don't buy it and drink them at home anymore because I had a roommate who convinced me that they are terrible for you. I had quite the diet soda bug and used to drink it constantly. I haven't lost any weight, though, but I'm much more likely to just drink plain water, which I think is good.

    By the way, the plain water in my neighborhood is absolutely delicious and I pump it out of the ground with a well. :)

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  19. Healthy teas are always a smarter choice than sodas. After water, they are already the most popular drink on earth.

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  20. Agree. Swap the soda out for water. If you are the type who finds water incredibly boring to drink, change it up a bit. Add a few slices of lemon and make things even more interesting by adding different berries, or grab some mint leaves from the garden. This will provide the refreshing flavor without any added calories or sugar which soda is loaded with!

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  21. Just read about a woman for whom quitting soda was the first step in her 100-pound weight loss journey.

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  22. Hi, i do drink a lot of diet soda and have lost weight. Regular soda was my downfall...I drank at least 2000 calories a day without realizing it. It's the sugar, dear

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  23. Avoid soda when you can but always avoid diet soda. The health risks are well known and it does nothing to help with losing weight or curbing your appetite. You'd think that people would understand the dangers of drinking diet soda but I see people downing it all the time.

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  24. I love soda but I've found some great alternatives. One is drinking soda water. I don't add anything to it or get the flavored kind but I know some people do. Another replacement for soda is water with lemon, lime, or other fruit. I have heard about fruit infusers too but haven't tried them.

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  25. Drinking less soda is hard.

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