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This is a data point of one, and I am certainly not implying that there is only one kind diet that works for everyone, but: Every time I've lost a significant

This is a data point of one, and I am certainly not implying that there is only one kind diet that works for everyone, but: Every time I've lost a significant amount of weight (currently at -70 lbs from my peak) it's because I have drastically reduced sugar/carbohydrate content---while continuing to guzzle aspartame-based diet soda like water. So either: 1.) I'm an outlier, 2.) These results are only relevant to saccharine sweeteners, and not aspartame, 3.) These results are bunk, like so many other nutritional studies, or, 4.) Low carbohydrate intake offsets any negative effects

soperj 9y ago
This isn't a nutritional study?
schoen 9y ago
This article mostly doesn't claim that diet sodas inhibit weight loss. In fact the biggest focus of the article is research suggesting that some food additives (not necessarily those in diet sodas) have helped the pathogen clostridium difficile to evolve in a way that's more dangerous to people. Even where the article discusses diet sodas, it doesn't specifically say that they inhibit weight loss but that they might cause other kinds of harmful metabolic effects through their effect on the microbiome—and that this mechanism is suggested by research but not yet well-established. It also admits that some of those effects, if they exist, could vary widely between people. That might be one reason that evidence nutrition has seemed so hard to pin down: if many of the effects depend on people's microbiomes, then some studies might be almost impossible to replicate in a different population, or maybe even in a different generation of research subjects. It might be true that some large group of people did very well eating one way, and that a different group did very well eating very differently, even if it seems like the advice that you'd draw from these observations is directly contradictory.
Spooky23 9y ago
Most of the things I’ve read about diet soda were more related to individuals with insulin resistance, and problems related to that. Soda is bad for other reasons too. The carbonic acid will rot your teeth.
- refurb 9y ago
  Do you have a source on the carbonic acid rotting your teeth? I thought it was the phosphoric acid. Carbonic acid is an incredibly weak acid.
Baeocystin 9y ago
I have had the exact same experience as you. FWIW.

soperj 9y ago

This isn't a nutritional study?

schoen 9y ago

This article mostly doesn't claim that diet sodas inhibit weight loss. In fact the biggest focus of the article is research suggesting that some food additives (not necessarily those in diet sodas) have helped the pathogen clostridium difficile to evolve in a way that's more dangerous to people. Even where the article discusses diet sodas, it doesn't specifically say that they inhibit weight loss but that they might cause other kinds of harmful metabolic effects through their effect on the microbiome—and that this mechanism is suggested by research but not yet well-established. It also admits that some of those effects, if they exist, could vary widely between people. That might be one reason that evidence nutrition has seemed so hard to pin down: if many of the effects depend on people's microbiomes, then some studies might be almost impossible to replicate in a different population, or maybe even in a different generation of research subjects. It might be true that some large group of people did very well eating one way, and that a different group did very well eating very differently, even if it seems like the advice that you'd draw from these observations is directly contradictory.

Spooky23 9y ago

Most of the things I’ve read about diet soda were more related to individuals with insulin resistance, and problems related to that. Soda is bad for other reasons too. The carbonic acid will rot your teeth.

refurb 9y ago
Do you have a source on the carbonic acid rotting your teeth? I thought it was the phosphoric acid. Carbonic acid is an incredibly weak acid.

Baeocystin 9y ago

I have had the exact same experience as you. FWIW.