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Health News Archive 360 - Diet
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Soda Associated with Weight Gain, Diet Soda is Higher

A study reported at the 2005 American Diabetes Association Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, found a link between diet soda and weight gain in humans.  Sharon P. Fowler, MPH, and colleagues at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas collected data on 1,550 Mexican-American and non-Hispanic, white Americans (ages 25-64) for seven to eight years.

About one-third of the 622 participants who began the study with normal weight became overweight or obese. 

"What didn't surprise us was that total soft drink use was linked to overweight and obesity," Fowler said.  "What was surprising was when we looked at people only drinking diet soft drinks, their risk of obesity was even higher."  Fowler says that this study does not prove that diet soda causes obesity, merely that "something linked to diet soda drinking is also linked to obesity."

Source: DeNoon D. Drink more diet soda, gain more weight? WebMD Medical News [serial online].  June 13, 2005. 

Reprinted with exclusive permission of the Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients - February/March 2006.

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