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I'd guess both, and my guess is part of the problem is fat people who think diet soda is an alternative to actually dieting. Which seems like the sort of risk
by Eelongate 5y ago
I'd guess both, and my guess is part of the problem is fat people who think diet soda is an alternative to actually dieting. Which seems like the sort of risk compensation the article is talking about.
I tend to consider reality TV to be fake, but I think people like this really do exist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIAFe7zaCRU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIAFe7zaCRU
> "Our mom told us when we were younger, if we ate a sugar you drink a diet coke afterwards and it will cancel out the sugar"
> Do you believe that to be true?
> "I did when I was a kid."
- addicted 5y agoThere are studies done about this. People who drink diet soda gain no more weight than people who drink regular soda. It is true, however, that people who drink diet soda or regular soda gain more weight than those who don’t drink soda at all. Turns out diet soda does not make things better from a weight loss perspective, but it doesn’t make thing a worse either, which negates risk compensation as a theory.
- jmull 5y ago> and my guess is part of the problem is fat people who think diet soda is an alternative to actually dieting Reality TV is essentially fake. Even the real parts, since by its nature it focuses on the strange, absurd, bizarre and unusual. It's not that these things don't exist, but if they were common, normal, or usual, they wouldn't be featured on reality TV. The reasoning should be like this: "I found support for the idea that fat people think diet soda is a good alternative to dieting on reality TV, so this idea is probably uncommon, unusual and strange."