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"And diet coke will not cause your body to have the same insulin response as sugar based drinks." This has recently been shown to be untrue. Recent research o
by sambeau 15y ago
"And diet coke will not cause your body to have the same insulin response as sugar based drinks."
This has recently been shown to be untrue.
Recent research on rats and humans shows that drinking diet drinks gives the body an expectation of calories that it then does not receive. Perhaps due to a Pavlovian response but physically real nonetheless, the digestive system switches on and gears up to digest. When no calories are received the body reacts by demanding the calories it missed out on: an effect very similar to to the 'insulin' response.
In lab tests: rats fed water + food kept a steady weight; sweeteners + food put on weight; sugar-water + food lost weight.
- palish 15y agoHey, thanks. Would you mind linking to the actual studies so I can read them? The "sugar-water + food = lost weight" bit is especially striking...
- mast 15y agoNot sure if this is the study previously mentioned, but it seems appropriate: http://professional.diabetes.org/Abstracts_Display.aspx?TYP=1&CID=50748 http://professional.diabetes.org/Abstracts_Display.aspx?TYP=...
- sambeau 15y agoOriginal academic sources: Fowler SP, Williams K, Resendez RG, Hunt KJ, Hazuda HP, Stern MP. Fueling the obesity epidemic? Artificially sweetened beverage use and long-term weight gain Obesity (Silver Spring) 2008 Aug;16(8):1894-1900. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18535548 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18535548 http://www.uthscsa.edu/hscnews/singleformat.asp?newID=3872 http://www.uthscsa.edu/hscnews/singleformat.asp?newID=3872 here's some pop-sci versions: http://www.fastcompany.com/1764156/diet-coke-is-why-youre-fat http://www.fastcompany.com/1764156/diet-coke-is-why-youre-fa... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2009055/Why-guzzling-diet-drink-make-fatter--trigger-appetite.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2009055/Why-guzzli... I'm still looking for the study on rats. I'll keep looking. I'm sure I bookmarked it somewhere…
- JanezStupar 15y agoOn veganism... I only know of one person who was full-stop vegan for more than 10 years. And even he had major health issues, due to absorption problems of some nutrients. He found a source of said nutrients that works for him. Everybody else returned to a balanced diet. I do understand that some people can function on purely vegan diet. However most do not.
- sandGorgon 15y agocould you comment on this then - http://www.ajcn.org/content/82/5/1011.abstract http://www.ajcn.org/content/82/5/1011.abstract P.S. I'm genuinely asking, most of my knowledge is borrowed from Leangains
- sambeau 15y agoInteresting — I hadn't seen that. This shows that what is going on here may be more complex than first thought. (Maybe it is just a Pavlovian response.) It doesn't change the evidence that people and rats put on weight when drinking diet drinks – it shows that the reason why is still unclear. <side note> I do worry how many medical papers are based on tiny samples. 5 seems very small to me (when I was doing drug research 100 was a small sample). </side note>
- sambeau 15y agoThese are interesting, too: This is interesting but on a different topic: calories: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC506782/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC506782/ This is about salt: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=its-time-to-end-the-war-on-salt http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=its-time-to... This on dairy products: http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v64/n6/abs/ejcn201045a.html http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v64/n6/abs/ejcn201045a.ht... This is an interesting account of veganism: http://voraciouseats.com/2010/11/19/a-vegan-no-more/ http://voraciouseats.com/2010/11/19/a-vegan-no-more/ And another interesting article on corn-syrup: http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/ http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/