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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Without even getting into all the other negative effects of things contained in soda or diet soda (what it does to your teeth, stomach, organs, ingredients in diet soda increasing risk of stroke, etc.), it's thought that the fake "sugar" in diet soda can lead to intense cravings for sweet things and you end up eating more than you otherwise would.[/quote]

All of these are suppositions or theories.  No double blind studies, no hard data.  Many people drink diet soda all the day long and have no problems at all.[/quote]

I don't think a double blind study is really necessary, but here are three studies that address the subject.  Taken together, they raise some real concerns:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/29/diet-soda-weight-gain_n_886409.html

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The problem withe these studies are the words "linked" and "associated".  Correlation is not causation.  There are many factors that correlate to obesity.  They do not cause obesity.[/quote]

Well that's the same thing the cigarette industry said.

But the fact is that the rat study did determine cause and effect on glucose levels, so it's not all correlation.  And while the longitudinal study is an observational study, it's about all we will ever get on long term effects of diet because you can't create a decade-long double blind diet study.  There is a reason that we do them, because otherwise we have no data on the long term effects of anything.  In fact there is no double blind study that proves consuming soda WITH sugar causes obesity.  Yet I am betting you would believe it.[/quote]

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