Keep Sugar-Free Soft Drinks Can Make You Fat

Found in many soft drinks market labeled sugar-free or sugar-free, as though if taken will not make fat. Though artificial sweeteners in these drinks can make waistlines widen six times faster.

Consumers often get stuck with the terms sugar free, low calorie or diet soda. Although it does not use sugar, beverages labeled such fixed using artificial sweeteners like aspartame as a sugar substitute for sucrose or fructose.

In theory, artificial sweeteners such as aspartame does contain calories are much lower than regular sugar there is even completely free of calories. But in relation to increased body weight, artificial sweeteners are not completely safe.

In a recent study conducted at the University of Texas revealed, people who regularly consume sugar-free beverage packaging labeled gained weight more quickly, which is 5-6 times as much. The study involved 474 people for 10 years.

In volunteers who consumed sugar-free beverages, waist circumference increased an average of 70 percent greater than the group who did not eat them. The observed increase in the highest reaches 500-600 percent, or approximately 6-fold.

"The data in this study showed that diet-soda and other artificial sweetened drinks are not as healthy as advertised," said the researcher, Prof. Helen Hazuda as quoted from the Telegraph, on Thursday (30/06/2011).

Artificial sweeteners are not thought to directly affect body weight. But it is believed, the promotion of that artificial sweeteners are healthier encourage someone to feel more secure that sometimes you forget a healthy diet when eating other foods and beverages.