Diet drinks either still or fizzy are the worst things to drink if you're trying to lose weight. They may initially satisfy the urges to fill your body with sugar, but long term they will delay your weight loss. Regularly drinking diet drinks instead of water may be slowing down the absorption of nutrients into your body and preventing the build up of toxins being flushed out efficiently; we need to drink at least 1.5 litres of water a day.
It has also been scientifically proven by tests on rats that "diet" foods or drinks do not help you lose weight; the body actually gets confused with the amount of calories that are being taken in. The UK and the US consume the most diet drinks in the world, so how come they have the most over weight and obese populations?
These are not healthy alternatives to their "full fat / full sugar" friends. The synthetic sugars such as aspartame (NutraSweet), cyclamates, saccharin, sucralose (Splenda), acesulfame
potassium are all nasty chemicals (neuro toxins and carcinogens) which are potentially harmful to your body. Not only do they slow down your weight loss, they slow down your digestion which can then lead on to lethargy, mood swings and headaches. For example take a look at the ingredients in Diet Coke: carbonated water, colour (caramel E150d), sweeteners (aspartame, acesulfame K), flavourings (including caffeine), phosphoric acid, citric acid, preservative (E211) Contains a source of phenylalanine. If you want to know learn more about what these ingredients do read this article from the Ecologist magazine [http://tinyurl.com/5bqm2w]
If you want to lose weight and be fit and healthy, try and retrain your palate so that you don't crave sugary drinks and foods. Humans are meant to eat natural foods and not processed or synthetic ones.
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