Study: Diet Foods Making Kids Fat

I have long thought that diet foods and diet drinks were strange substances. How can something like Diet Coke® have under one calorie? Read all the chemicals...er...ingredients listed on the label...

Diet Coke®: Carbonated water, caramel color, phosphoric acid, sodium saccharin, potassium benzoate (to protect taste), natural flavors (vegetable source), citric acid, caffeine, potassium citrate, aspartame, dimethylpolysiloxane. PHENYLKETONURICS: ASPARTAME CONTAINS PHENYLALANINE.

Yikes.

Also, how can drinking something that tastes sweet but does not contain carbs be good for your body? It fools the pancreas into releasing insulin to metabolize carbs/sugar that is not there. A new study links diet food to obesity in children, and this should raise alarm. Here is the link to the story. Carbs are okay, and everything in moderation should enable you to have a happy relationship with food. But don't think that drinking Diet Coke in place of regular coke solves your weight problem.

Posted by: Michael Pingicer, M.S., L.Ac.