The Diet Soda/Fat Belly Question

Does drinking diet soda make us fat, or do fat people drink more diet soda than thinner people; that is the question. And the answer is……nobody knows. What researchers do know is that there is an association between the consumption of noncaloric sodas and a wider waist circumference. HealthDay reports that researchers studied the findings from a previous study of more than 700 white and Latino people, all of whom were 65 or older when they entered the study. After nine years, the researchers found, the waistlines of people who never drank diet sodas increased by 0.8 inches; occasional diet soda drinkers’ abdominal girth grew by 1.8 inches; and those who drank diet soda every day expanded their waistlines expanded by more than 3 inches. Impressive.