Opening a diet soda can and drinking it makes you feel relaxed. However, the claims of diet soda being healthy are far from truth. They contain just as much sugar and various gases as other regular sodas.
Below are listed a few side effects of Diet Soda
Artificial sugars: Main reason people prefer diet sodas is because they contain less sugar. The truth is that they are loaded with artificial sugars like aspartame, cyclamate, saccharin, acesulfame-k and sucralose that do more harm to your body than the natural sugars.
Trigger Insulin which makes body prone to 2 Diabetes and heart attacks
These artificial sugars trigger insulin which makes your body prone to type 2 Diabetes. The metabolic syndrome caused by these artificial sugars includes high blood pressure, elevated glucose levels and raised cholesterol.
Weight gain
With all these sugars, weight gain due to diet sodas is inevitable. If you are thinking that just because the word ‘diet’ is written over it, it is healthy then, you are completely wrong. It will make you gain weight at a rapid speed. Along with that, the diet sodas majorly hit the waistline by adding inches to it.
Lower bone density
Researchers have found that diet soda can lower bone density with regular consumption. This is more prominent in the female consumers. It makes them prone to osteoporosis.
