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New studies have shown that for some unknown reason people who drink diet sodas are more likely to become obese.

“If you offer your body something that tastes like a lot of calories, but it isn’t there, your body is alerted to the possibility that there is something there and it will search for the calories promised but not delivered,” Fowler says.

“People think they can just fool the body. But maybe the body isn’t fooled,” she says. “If you are not giving your body those calories you promised it, maybe your body will retaliate by wanting more calories. Some soft drink studies do suggest that diet drinks stimulate appetite.”

This would appear to explain a lot about our eating habits and why some people have difficulty losing weight. Since it is widely been discussed that starving the body does not assist in the loss of weight due to the slowdown in metabolism, it would make sense that people who consume large quantities of soda and switch diet soda would essentially be starving themselves. A noticeable reduction in 600 to 900 cal per day might be enough to trigger metabolic slowdown resulting in greater difficulty for the person to lose weight