Cutting out soda leads to weight loss

For an easy way to start lowering body weight over the long term, look for hidden calories and unwanted ingredients in your beverage choices and take a closer look at drinking soda.

According to the National Soft Drink Association – Americans drink enough soda for every person in the country to consume over 600 - 12 oz. cans per year. If those are regular sodas, the potential weight gain per American consuming those 600 sodas, would be over 30 pounds!

Since most of those sodas are of the low calorie and diet variety – the weight gain formula may seem like an exaggeration.  However, the San Antonio Heart Study takes over 25 years of patient data and clearly links diet soda consumption with obesity. People who drank diet soft drinks were more likely to become overweight. And the more diet sodas they drank, the higher the risk of becoming obese. The statistic was 65% more likely to become overweight for each diet drink per day!

Many people, who drink diet sodas, still tend to consume high calorie foods. Additionally, the insulin response caused by drinking diet sodas slows metabolism and therefore promotes long term weight gain.

There is more bad news about soda .  Caffeine and sodium and raise blood pressure in some people to unsafe levels. And many experts agree that high fructose corn syrup found in regular soda has a direct correlation to high obesity rates.

Cutting out soda is good option for weight loss and health. Making better beverage choices is an immediate health improvement and water always remains the best alternative. 

 For more info: Contact Mark Dees - markdees@fitnesstogether.com