Diet sodas are sugar-free, artificially sweetened, carbonate drinks marketed towards people who want to use less sugar and lose weight for fitness.
Sweet taste is given to diet soda by using various artificial sweeteners and some even use sugar with other artificial sweeteners. About the taste of these drinks opinions are mixed. People think that sugar drink tastes the best. Most of the people say that diet drinks leaves an bitter taste. Others feel that diet soda has no aftertaste and that drinks sweetened by high fructose corn syrup an over-sweet aftertaste.
The first artificial sweeteners were cyclamates. Many had the opinion that these sodas had a better taste than diet sodasthat followed. FDA in 1970 suspended the use of cyclamates in the US. These agents caused cancer in lab animals. Even with that information cyclamates especially in diet soda are still used in some countries around the world.
Then American manufacturers began using saccharin. But saccharin was believed by users have a chemical aftertaste. Coca-Cola produced Tab by adding a small amount of sugar. Ban was put on saccharin as a carcinogen by FDA in 1977 but soon the ban was suspended after completing he studies on it. This was lifted in 1991, but nearly every diet soda had shifted to using aspartame which is now the most common sweetener.
Sucralose known as Splenda and Sunett or Ace K are new sweeteners in he market used with small amounts of aspartame, and other artificial sweeteners. These are often utilized by some smaller beverage manufacturers.Currently aspartame is believed by the users to be the cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome type illnesses.
Taste of drinks with these sweeteners are more like natural sugar. Critics complained the taste is not better and advise that the long-term risks of using artificial sweeteners are not yet known.
Effectiveness of diet sodas as a weight loss tool has also come under a cloud with health concerns of sugar substitutes and overuse of caffeine.
Consumers who drink large amounts of regular soda may have weight loss after switching to diet soda. But animal studies have shown that artificial sweeteners cause weight gain. The sweetness of the taste hastens an insulin response resulting blood sugar to store in tissues but because blood sugar does not develop with artificial sugars hypoglycemia can emerge and people eat more at the next meal. After time rats given sweeteners has increased caloric consumption causing weight and fat gain.
So, the jury on how helpful diet soda is to losing weight is still out.
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