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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In theory it should be fine drinking diet soda because it does not contain much calories. However artificial sweeteners do trigger a neurological response which may include things such as insulin production, digestion and your hunger. Everyone experiences different responses and they might even change over time. But we do often see people on a diet craving sweets and ending up with diet soda only to crave even more sweets and literally getting adicted to diet soda. When this still does not satisfy them they tend to crack and break their diet not only eating up to their previous food intake but even putting on weight. So the best recomendation is to avoid soda if you can and if you can not, for example in social settings, drink diet soda.
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