10 Non-Dietary Reasons For Weight Gain - Page 8
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Julia Austin
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Drinking diet soda
Diet soda is a complicated item. It is, in a way, a “dietary” factor, but in many ways, it isn’t since it’s not real food. There’s nothing real about it. But since it has no calories, it can make us feel that we’ve earned the right to consume more of it. We might run with that, and eat more food than we would have had we simply had the regular soda. Even if your diet soda doesn’t affect your eating habits though, research has found that those who drink it regularly are prone to metabolic syndrome, which is associated with a larger waist circumference.
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