Aspartame: decades of Science Point to Serious Health Consequences
Most people begin consuming diet products not because they love the taste or want to gain extra nutrition but because they believe doing so will help them lose weight. Those sweetened with aspartame make up a large part of the “diet” products market to this day, despite plentiful research showing they likely promote weight gain, not loss. Take the 2011 study by researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
After following 474 diet soda drinkers for nearly 10 years, researchers found that the drinkers’ waists grew 70 percent more than the waists of non-diet soda drinkers. Further, those who drank two or more diet sodas a day had a 500 percent greater increase in waist size. A similar study published in 2015 also revealed a “striking dose-response relationship” between diet soda consumption and waist circumference.
