Is it safe to drink non-sugary drinks (like coke zero) while on a diet? Or do the artificial sweeteners just make you fat in some sneaky way?
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See, this is what is actually happening here:
The soda makers took a lot of flack from bad parents in the 1980s and 1990s who apparently can’t stop buying sodas and then getting pissed when their kids got fat.
So, to avoid Congress coming in and regulating with some sort of sugar crackdown, they all redid their recipes and also introduced low calorie drinks to trick people into thinking they’d actually changed.
Soda Zero or Diet or whatever they call it is not going to help you lose weight.
See, the soda companies did this because they were already aware that most people will never actually exercise and rather than have an argument with a bunch of idiots, they just invented a new product and got a new revenue stream all while patting you in the head and never claiming it’s a weight loss product. You believe it is because the marketing is clever.
They say “zero calories” and your brain fills in the rest.
See, to actually lose weight you have to burn calories and the only way to actually do that in a meaningful way is to exercise. It’s the same stupid mindset from health gurus who claim eating celery is negative calories. And that is true; however, you’ll lose about 1/10 of an ounce of weight for every stick of celery.
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