Why? Because what I read here correlated to what was going on in my personal life. To wit: cutting out sugar wasn’t really helping with the weight gain.
You’ve been watching your sugar intake lately, so you select a diet soft drink from the office pop machine for a cool, refreshing pick-me-up. It’s sugar-free and has no calories. About as harmless as water, right?
Not so, says a new study published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Nonnutritive sweeteners such as those used in diet pop were associated with weight gain, a higher risk of Type 2 diabetes and other health problems, according to researchers from the University of Manitoba’s George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation.
Now they tell me. I may just give up completely and drink water with lemon juice in it from now on. Surely that’s healthy for me, right? Continue reading So I stopped buying Coke Zero.