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The first 10 steps to losing weight
4. Stay away from diet soda
When scientists look at the overall diet of people who drink diet soda, they find that consuming these low- or no-calorie beverages apparently makes you less healthy than folks who never indulge.
“[In our study]… there was an important interplay between overall diet and what people drink,” says researcher Kiyah Duffey, Ph.D. “It is important that people consider the entirety of their diet before they consider switching to or adding diet beverages, because without doing so they may not realize the health benefits they were hoping to see.”
This study gathered data collected over 20 years from more than 4,000 young adults who participated in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study. People who were healthiest tended to be those who ate a prudent diet and who stayed away from diet sodas. Their waistlines were smaller, their triglyceride levels (blood fats) were lower and they suffered less metabolic syndrome.
Meanwhile, research at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and at Columbia University Medical Center has also shown that people who drink diet soda every day have an increased risk of stroke and heart attack.
