You've been lied to: diet soda

Hello everyone. Haven't done a blog in a while, but here we go:

Since the beginning of time (or the 6th grade year, at least) someone- I won't name names- and I have been in a super intelligent debate (for a goldfish) about what kinda stuff makes diet coke sweet and how it affects you, blah blah blah. But I shall prove to you that this so called "healthy alternative" is not at all healthy. 

Part 1: Scientists have found a link with diet soda and obesity. The thing is, diet soda disrupts the body's to know then you're full, leading to stuffing yourself. Also, the artificial sugar can lead to wanting real sugar, which makes you take in just as much sugar as you would without diet soda.

Not only will this product make you fat, but it can also cause cancer. Also aspartame, an artificial sweetener, can cause headaches. This my dad can prove from experience because he said it himself. Part 1 found here.

Part 2: More research shows us even more side affects of this totally healthy substance. It can affect your kidneys! At Harvard Medical School, a study was conducted on 3,000 women. Kidney function started to decline when the subjects drank more than two sodas a day. It was also found that the sugars in the real soda were not to blame, so the scientists think the artificial sweeteners are to blame. Next up, your metabolism can get messed up and this can lead to belly fat and high cholesterol. This study was conducted by the university of Minnesota. 

Also, let's look upwards at the obesity to diet soda link I mentioned earlier. Just two diet sodas a day can increase waist size by 500%. This brought to you by Texas Health Science Center. This next one doesn't affect you if you're under the age of 21. Non-sugary drinks allow alcohol into the bloodstream faster than the sugary ones, so your Jack-and-diet-coke is gonna go to your head a lot faster than normal. This tidbit from the Royal Adelaide Hospital in Australia.

The University of Sheffield in the U.K. found that the preservatives in your diet soda can also damage the DNA in the mitochondria of your cells, to the point where it gets completely destroyed. Oh and also, diet soda has a pH of about 4, which is very acidic. Water has a pH of 7. Battery acid has a pH of 1. The lower it is, the more acidic it is. 4 isn't too low, but a lot of it will damage your teeth a ton. The University of Michigan found that diet soda drinkers at the dentist have more decay and fillings. I should also mention that the pH range is 0-14 and regular soda is a 2.5. Here is where I found the info for part 2.

Part 3: These artificial sweeteners, found by Dr. Brooke Alpert, have a very intense taste that can make sweet things like fruit taste sour. It also makes your body go into fat storage mode, making it impossible to shed pounds for a while.

Also, while you may be not putting anything bad in your body, your not putting anything good in either. If you like the fizz, sparkling water is fizzy, and you put the good of water into your body.

Back to tooth erosion, dentists looked at a crack rock (a form of cocaine) addict, a meth addict, and a diet soda drinker. They found the level of tooth erosion to be the same. Yes, drink this stuff and you'll smile like a drug addict.

You might just get addicted to something if you're too depressed, and drinking a lot of diet soda led 30% of the subjects to be depressed.

Just one diet a day may also cause vascular problems like strokes and heart attacks. Conducted by Columbia University, a study found that everyone who drank diet soda was 43% for likely to have a heart attack. Part 3 was found here.

 Hope you learned something and drink more water,

James