Are diet drinks making you fat?

Recent research has revealed that diet drinks, in fact any food carrying a 'diet' label could actually be making you fatter.

The reason for this is that diet drinks contain artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, sucralose to name but two. These artificial sweeteners are much more intense than real sugar and are known by experts as 'excitotoxins' because they stimulate the sensory areas of the brain and trick your body into expecting a huge calorie hit. Because your body is expecting more it releases a large amount of insulin to counteract the sugar. These sweeteners contain no calories so their is nothing for the insulin to work on. What happens when you have excess insulin floating around in your blood stream? You get hungry and what happens when you get hungry? You eat. More often than not you will eat junk because when you have an insulin spike you often reach for the most sugary and fatty food to counteract the insulin and beat the craving.

It's much better and healthier to eat or drink food with natural sugar, like fruit juice rather than the diet options which contain chemical alternatives. Just make sure you are aware of the calories that you are consuming.