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Diet Coke Won't Help You Lose Weight

28.11.2016

Scientists from the Massachusetts Central Hospital (USA) have found that the so-called "diet" sugar-free soda, contrary to advertising, is absolutely useless for weight loss - and can work quite the opposite.

Diet Coke uses the artificial sweetener aspartame instead of sugar. Theoretically, such sugar substitutes are designed to promote weight loss and reduce the symptoms of metabolic syndrome. However, a number of clinical and epidemiological studies show that aspartame does not work as well as it should and may exacerbate obesity. The reason is that the artificial sweetener inhibits intestinal alkaline phosphatase.

This enzyme, as scientists believe, is just able to prevent obesity. To test the effect of aspartame on him, the researchers set up an experiment on animals, dividing them into four groups. The first two groups received a high-fat meal, but half of them drank water with a dissolved sugar substitute and the other half plain water. The remaining two groups received a normal balanced diet, but in the same way, half of them drank water with aspartame, and the other half without it.

The mice in the two groups, given the sweetened water, consumed the equivalent of three and a half cans of Diet Coke per day. As a result, after a month, the scientists found that in groups that received a normal diet of food, but drank different water, there was not much difference in weight. But mice that ate fatty foods noticeably gained weight - and those who drank water with aspartame gained more weight than those who drank food with plain water.

But that's not all. The mice that drank the sweetened water had higher blood pressure and higher blood sugar levels, suggesting increased symptoms of metabolic syndrome. The researchers noted that they could not rule out other mechanisms contributing to obesity, but the experiment shows that aspartame clearly blocks the activity of intestinal alkaline phosphatase, which is quite detrimental to health.

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