Seven reasons to avoid diet soda.

You might think that drinking diet soda is a healthy alternative to taking calorie-rich regular soft drinks if you’re worried about your waistline. This sweet choice could appear as innocent as calorie-free water; however, a research reveals that it could be just as unhealthy to your body as consuming regular soft drink. In some cases, it might be even worse for you.

Here are seven more reasons to give up diet soda:

It messes with your skin

Consuming diet soda can ruin your skin because it decreases your PH levels. As a result, you may have pimples all around your face. According to Dr. Jeanette Graf, we need a high level of alkaline in order to make our bodies healthy.  The doctor suggests his patient to avoid all sorts of soda drinks including diet soda.

Soda decays your tooth

The International Center for Complete Dentistry alerts that diet sodas are as acidic as regular soft drinks, implying that their regular consumption can cause tooth decay.

It damages your Kidney

With just two servings of diet soda each day, you are likely to pose a serious risk to your kidney. Research participants who consumed two or more diet sodas per day had a kidney function decline of thirty percent or more. The study also revealed that those who drank diet soda had less kidney blood filtering capacity than those who consume regular soft drinks.

Diet soda triggers diabetes and heart disease 

Excessive consumption of diet soda triggers diabetics and heart diseases.

It causes dehydration

Some people drink diet soda in lieu of water. Caffeine is a diuretic; therefore sodas with caffeine will cause dehydration.

You are at risk for metabolic syndrome

Drinking diet sodas has actually been connected with metabolic disorder, alerts the American Diabetic Association. Some other popular research such as the Framingham Heart Stud, along with the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study reveals that if you consume diet drink, or eat too much fried foods or meat, you are at high risk for metabolic syndrome.

Diet drinks is responsible for weight gain

Contrary to the popular belief, diet soda is heavily responsible for gaining weight. The San Antonio Heart Study discovers that the more diet soda you take, the higher the chance that you be obese. For each diet drinks you consume there is a sixty five percent increase in your risk of gaining weight.

There are still many other reasons why you should not rely on diet soda in losing weight. I recommend you drink plenty of water, get enough rest, do some light exercises and watch out your diet if you are serious about burning fat.