Diet soda, know whether it is as beneficial as claimed.

Diet sodas are currently gaining popularity and are one of the popular beverages all around the world amongst health enthusiasts. People who specially want to reduce their sugar or calorie intake are it’s main attraction.

Various brands use artificial sweetening agents instead of sugar during preparation of diet sodas.

Although various brands claim their diet sodas free of sugar and calories. But till now the health effects of diet soda and artificial sweeteners are just controversial.

• Diet soda not nutritious at all.

Basically died, soda is a mixture of carbonated water with artificial or natural sweetener. Some other colours and flavours are added to prepare special flavours of soda.

In most of the cases this do not have or have very low calories. Just for an estimation about 354 ml of Diet Coke contains no calories but just 40 mg of sodium.

But the thing to keep in mind is not also does use artificial sweeteners or are low in calories. Some brands generally use sugar and sweetener together. Thus, one can of Coca Cola of this variety may give about 90 calories with 24 grams of sugar.

• May have some effects on blood sugar levels.

As mentioned earlier, diet soda has no calories, sugar or fat. There are several studies that link it to the development of type 2 diabetes and heart diseases.

Studies and researches revealed that having one serving of an artificially sweet drink per day significantly associated with 13% higher risk of type 2 diabetes.

Another human research on 70,000 women reported that artificially sweetened drinks increases the risk of diabetes by 21%.

• Do it really affects weight loss programme?

Just because diet soda is generally free of calories. So it’s natural for people to assume that it can aid in weight loss programme. But several studies and researches claim that Association may not be so straight forward.

Several human trials just revealed the fact that using too much of artificial sweeteners are associated with increase in risk of obesity and metabolic syndrome.

Health experts and scientists claim that diet soda may increase appetite by stimulating hunger hormone. Thus this will increase the amount of calorie one will intake.

Another report states diet sodas correlation with weight gain may be explained by the people with bad dietary habits drink more of it.

About one year long study on overweight participants who drink 710 ml of diet soda everyday. The result stated that the diet soda group has experienced an average weight loss of 6 kgs.

So still there is a large amount of confusion on effects of diet soda on weight loss. This topic has to be extensively researched.

• Other potential health effects.

Clearly mentioning that the below mentioned health effects of diet soda are just experienced or documented.

1. Some experiences or claims revealed that replacing regular soda would die. Soda can reduce fat around the liver. This can be beneficial in reducing fatty liver symptoms.

2. Till now low such reports are available that link carbonated drinks to reflux or heartburn worse.

3. Artificial sweeteners act as poison to microbes present in human gut. One study revealed that artificial sweeteners damage the gut microbes in various ways.

4. It’s well known that regular intake of soda or diet soda is associated with dental erosion due to its high pH level.

As researches on diet soda are so controversial. So it becomes difficult to claim whether it is healthier and healthy for human body.