Cold Drinks and your health

There are Countless people who consume Diet Coke during their dieting thinking that it would support their dieting efforts. Cold drinks and the likes including Diet Coke, regardless of the number of calories it contains, dampens your fat loss efforts and will ultimately lead you to gain weight.

Two of the main reasons of concern before having Diet Coke are that

1)The sweet taste from Diet Coke elicits an insulin spike, which blocks your ability to burn fat.

2)Artificial sweeteners found in Diet Coke disrupt satiety, the feeling of being full.

The resulting actions of Diet Coke stand against a healthy life style. So understanding ensures us that we should think twice before consuming it.

In losing fat the concern is more about the quantity of sugar (or its substitute) that you consume rather than calories that you intake. Therefore, your goal should be to reduce the intake of sugar or its substitute as low as possible (this includes fruits, their juices). The reason being that sweet flavor elicits the release of insulin from the pancreas to enhance the uptake of sugar by the cells so that it doesn't linger in the bloodstream. Once insulin it is released then it inhibits your fat burning hormone called HSL (hormone sensitive lipase). This is the hormone that is responsible for releasing fat into the bloodstream to be utilized as fuel. If inhibited, your body is unable to burn fat and will then begin utilizing amino acids (from muscle) and carbohydrates as fuel. This will leave you feeling tired, grumpy, and sloth-like toward the end of the day. Also you will become abnormally hungry. And those with large amounts of HSL burn fat all day and look thin and slim. Those who inhibit it by eating or drinking the wrong substances grow fat throughout their adult years.

Artificial sweeteners disrupt satiety, the feeling of being full. When we consume artificial sweeteners we disrupt the body's ability to count calories based on sweetness. And those who drink diet coke will overeat without conscious awareness.

Diet coke contains an artificial sweetener called aspartame. Aspartame is the basis of NutraSweet and Equal, flavors Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, and other drinks, and sweetens other types of foods. Various articles on various sites claim that “If you are using aspartame ... and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting pains, and numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo, dizziness, headaches, tinnitus, joint pain, depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss - you probably have aspartame disease. The scientific evidence may fall well short of pinning an actual rap on the sweetener, but it is sufficient enough to raise a legitimate concern.”

Phenylalanine is another artificial sweetener found in Coke, Pepsi, or other soft drinks that contains whopping 600 calories.

So finally, either you intake Diet Coke, Pepsi, coke or any other soft drink you will gain weight. So, just stay away from these and other sugar sources if you're concerned and serious regarding losing fat. You may intake lemon water with some salt but without sugar and that is a great drink. In India we have Lassi (curd with water added and whipped) in salt or sweet flavours in summer. Now the Choice is yours!