Drinking Soda Can Make You Fat. Boy, There's a Surprise.

Here's some news that should be no news -- especially to all of us not living under a rock for years -- as provided by the tabloid, er, world news giant CNN.com:

Nutritionists:  Soda Making Americans Drink Themselves Fat

I'll be looking for articles tomorrow about water being wet and the sky being blue. . .

All kidding aside, the article's key points:

1.  Sugar in soda is a major contributing factor to the obesity problem -- must be due to the erratic hormonal response it induces.

2.  Soda delivers a high amount of calories -- empty calories -- which are problematic because they don't make you feel full, despite having just drained a 2 liter bottle of soda.  This, of course, increases the probability that you'll consume a surplus of calories for the day . . . consume more calories than you burn off and, well, you know the story.

My point of contention with this article?  Dr. David Ludwig, Harvard endocrinologist, proclaiming that the first step to eradicating obesity is clearly "giving up sugary soda for diet drinks, or water. . ."

Diet drinks?

Dr. Ludwig must not have seen the recently published study on Diet Soda's link to heart disease, and the risk factor associated with drinking diet soda -- increased waist circumference(!).

I don't know about you, but I'm thinking that diligently sticking to water and green tea consumption will  best serve you in your fat loss efforts.  Cast that soda - regular and diet - aside.

Comments

[Cassie]

Gotta agree with the first part there... CNN's been doing a lot to inform me of *astounding* information... soda makes you fat, American junk food is bad for foreigners, men who do one of those "speed dating" things would rather get a second date with attractive girls... shocking.

[Shellie]

Slow news day at CNN, eh?