Maybe you’ve been wondering: Can drinking diet pop help me lose weight?

To answer that, I’ll cite a quote from Barney Frank, even though he wasn’t responding to a question about diet pop:

“On what planet do you spend most of your time?”

That probably sounds a bit extreme, but I use that quote because to my mind diet soda, or regular full-calorie soda for that matter, could well have been invented by extraterrestrials as part of a plot to slowly poison us poor, unsuspecting Earthlings.

Diet soda is a very clever devil. It tricks humans in at least a couple of ways.

Trick No. 1: Weight-conscious people are duped into drinking diet soda because it has fewer calories (about 150 calories in the average 12-ounce can of cola) than the full-calorie kind.

But there hasn’t been a study yet that has demonstrated that diet pop helps people lose weight or assists them in maintaining a certain weight.

In fact, just the opposite is true. Researchers are compiling a growing mound of evidence that seems to point to a link between drinkers of diet soda and a greater risk of obesity.

Even though a direct cause and effect between diet soda and obesity has not been established, one has to wonder.

Second, that low-calorie diet pop tricks you into the foolish thinking that if you drink it you are automatically cleared to dig into that plate of brownies. Welcome to your double chin.

We don’t yet know precisely how the artificial sweetener in diet cola tricks the human brain in these insidious ways. And, given how much of this junk is poured into people’s bodies, that fact alone is frightening.

But, as I see it, this much can be said:

Most pop of any kind, diet soda included, is not food in any sense of the word. Rather, it is a conglomeration of chemicals that you should avoid like the plague.

Who can help me lose weight? As an Internet health and fitness researcher, Cindy Cameron has written extensively on ways to lose weight.

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