3 ms·

I thought coke zero has 0 calories, other than the kidney stones you will get, it should not affect your weight due to calories no matter how much you drink, co

• timwiseman 17y ago
  The point of the article is that drinking diet soda frequently messes with your internal connection between sweetness and being satisfied (full) in generally. So in other words, people who drink diet soda will in general eat more and drink more of other sweet things in general and thus gain wait because their internal connections no long correspond to the real world. That is why they would gain weight, not from the sodas directly. Assuming of course that the hypothesis holds.
  • joeyo 17y ago
    It's not a bad theory. Interestingly, there is evidence of inputs into the brain reward system that operate independently of sweetness and that perhaps directly encode metabolic value: Rodents that lack the ability to taste sweetness prefer caloric sweeteners such as sucrose to noncaloric sweeteners, such as sucralose[1]. Therefore the brain can detect calories more directly. So in the context of this new study, it could be that the brain notices that a certain rate of eating/drinking is correlated with a decreased rate of satiety and concludes that the correct thing to do is to eat more. 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2008.01.032 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2008.01.032
• randallsquared 17y ago
  I believe people with kidney stones are advised to drink more, not less, to avoid time for the kidneys to build larger stones.
  • gaius 17y ago
    Caffeine is a diuretic, tho'.