Diet Drinks And The Many Significant Health Risks

Altered Taste Buds And Cravings

Drinking diet soda impairs the taste of other foods, often times making them less enjoyable. Artificial sweeteners found in diet drinks overwhelm taste buds with a fake sugary effect. Aspartame tastes two hundred times sweetener than regular table sugar. Splenda is six hundred times sweeter. Brain scans show that diet soda alters the brain’s perception of sweet foods and increases cravings of more sugary sweets. Giving up diet drinks allows palate sensitivity to increase and in most cases the craving for sugary snacks stops.

Osteoporosis

Many diet soft drinks contain phosphoric acid, which increases calcium excretion in the urine, putting drinkers at an increased risk for osteoporosis. A recent study found that every soda consumed increased the risk of hip fracture in postmenopausal women by fourteen percent. Another study found an associated between low bone density in older women and diet cola drinkers.