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Study: diet soda can really mess with your metabolism

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Re: Study: diet soda can really mess with your metabolism

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Pretty interesting how fake sugar and carbs are worse then fake sugar alone. I'm interested in keto diets and they use a lot of fake sugar in their dessert fat bombs which apparently may be better than fake sugar and carbs.

I eat keto and just cut the sweets - my goal was to be healthier and love longer and fake sugars didn't align with that. I used to have a big sweet tooth. I quickly adjusted and sweets now make me feel gross. Wouldn't change it for the world.

Re: Study: diet soda can really mess with your metabolism

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Why are all these studies always done so poorly?

One way to add another level to test the sweetness mismatch theory would be to try multiple sweeteners. She only tries sucralose. If others fail, her theory is probably wrong.

The article also says there was a higher metabolic response defined as using more calories to process the drinks at the 50-50 level. How does that lead to storing more calories? (I might be misunderstanding this part though).

And is the mismatch is worse at the 50-50 level then eating more carbs would be better (get you off that peak) so a full meal would vastly negate the effect?

Re: Study: diet soda can really mess with your metabolism

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post #3

Pretty interesting how fake sugar and carbs are worse then fake sugar alone. I'm interested in keto diets and they use a lot of fake sugar in their dessert fat bombs which apparently may be better than fake sugar and carbs.

I eat keto and just cut the sweets - my goal was to be healthier and love longer and fake sugars didn't align with that. I used to have a big sweet tooth. I quickly adjusted and sweets now make me feel gross. Wouldn't change it for the world.

Wow! How long did it take ? I keep trying and failing because of candy and stress eating.