What if you could drink all the soda you wanted and never get fat? To some peoplecomputer programmers, harried editors, every ten year old in the worldthis sounds like heaven, while others shudder at the proposition. We cant hear enough about how harmful Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and the like are to our bodies (and, thanks to all the excess caffeine, our minds) these days, and every month it seems like a new diet soda arrives to alleviate those worries while still treating our collective sweet tooth. Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, those pink Tab cans, Pepsi One, C2, Pepsi Maxit goes on.
But even these sodas, designed to appeal to the healthy-minded who cant give up that sweet taste, may have a dark side. A recent study noted a correlation between heavy diet soda consumption and obesity; and while correlation is not causation, there may be some legitimacy to the studys main thrust. People who drink diet soda, the study maintains, are more likely to consume other unhealthy sweet snacks. In essence, you cant fool your body by drinking something sweet but light; the body will demand real sweet stuff all the more until its desires are sated.
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