Some Experts Say Diet Soda Adds Pounds

[Thraxen]

Translation: Diet Sodas don't likey add any weight at all, dumbasses just think they can eat more because they have a diet soda to go with their meal.

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

duh...that's cause dumb fat people think they are being healthy with diet soda, so they eat a ton of junk

 

[FoBoT]

i switched to diet in 2006 and i didn't gain weight. i am about the same, i haven't weighed myself in a few years, but my gut is more or less the same size

i don't understand this, i didn't eat extra stuff, i just didn't get XXXX calories from the HFCS

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: dullard
Instead of eating two cookies, people buy a whole box of them and eat the entire box because they are "fat free" or "low calorie".

The fun part of this is that I think you can label something as "low calorie" simply by reducing the serving size. Want to make butter be a low calorie food? Make the serving size 1 gram. Wow, only 9 calories per serving! Chow down!

no, you can't anymore. the government started requiring standardized serving sizes because of crap like that. the original "lite" klondike bar had 1/3 the fat and 1/3 the calories because it was 1/3 the size.

that and you'll get hit by the FTC for deceptive advertising practices

 

[xboxist]

That's quite the misleading title. Diet Soda definitely doesn't add pounds. It's the extra food that people order because they're having a diet soda.

I've dropped 20 lbs since October from merely cutting out regular soda (and switching to diet soda), and walking on a treadmill a few times a week. I'm pretty damn sure that the treadmill isn't responsible for all 20 lbs. lost. I've cut probably 300-500 calories a day by not drinking regular soda.

 

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
Maybe there really are people out there who think 'If I get a Diet Coke then I can definately super size this McDonald's Value Meal' but that doesn't mean the diet soda in and of itself is the cause of added pounds. It means the person is an idiot.

most people are inherently idiots

 

[Marinski]

People need to get off the couch and get exercise. You get fat when you sit around and eat and do nothing. Gotta burn off the calories, your body can only do so much.

 

[chrisms]

The only people I know who drink Diet Coke are fat people. Everyone else drinks normal Coke.

 

[JS80]

what a retarded headline. it should read "study finds fat people who drink diet end up eating more calories to make up for the loss"

 

[BD2003]

Correlation != Causation!

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: Thraxen
Translation: Diet Sodas don't likey add any weight at all, dumbasses just think they can eat more because they have a diet soda to go with their meal.

i tend to think that diet soda makes our body crave sweets.

 

[Syringer]

Here's a new study! Fat people are more likely to go on diets than skinny people! Therefore, DIETING makes you FAT :Q

 

[RaiderJ]

Eat less, exercise more -> lose weight

Not do the above -> gain weight

Duh!

 

[Nik]

Originally posted by: RaiderJ
Eat properly, exercise more -> lose weight

Not do the above -> gain weight

Duh!

Fixed.