As featured this week on Good Morning America, a recent study done by Purdue University found that the artificial sweeteners in diet soda pop can actually cause you to gain more weight than drinking soda pop sweetened with real sugar.
Apparently when you ingest sugar, your body's metabolism is increased. However, with artificial sweeteners, the taste buds taste something sweet but there's no calorie load that comes with it to increase your metabolic rate. This causes a mismatch in our bodies which changes our brain chemistry in some way. Even 1 diet soda a day can increase your weight.
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