Why Diet Drinks And Snacks Make You Fat

One of the most common reasons why most people do not lose weight

Instead of helping you lose weight, diet drinks, diet snacks, processed foods and artificial sweeteners in your tea and coffee are keeping you fat.

Read on to find out why. . .

Artificial sweeteners overwhelm your liver

Your liver is your largest internal organ, responsible for an astonishing variety of life-sustaining and health-promoting tasks, including those that make healthy weight loss and weight management possible. It’s your liver’s job to distinguish between the nutrients you need to absorb and the dangerous or unnecessary substances that must be filtered out of your bloodstream. But when the liver is clogged and overwhelmed with toxins, like artificial sweeteners, it can’t do a very effective job of processing nutrients and fats which will prevent you from losing weight.

Your liver also produces bile, a crucial substance for detoxifying our bodies. It is the job of bile to help our bodies break down the fats we need and to assimilate fat-soluble vitamins. But when our bile becomes overly congested with the toxins it’s trying to filter out, it simply can’t function properly and it will have a greater difficulty breaking down fat.

A toxin is anything that your body does not recognize as a natural food source

Artificial sweeteners are a toxin because your body does not recognize them as a food source. So the more artificial sweeteners you consume, the more you are overwhelming your liver with toxins and the less able it is to do its job of processing fat. And if the liver can’t do its job, you can’t lose weight or worse yet, you gain weight.

Sweeteners increase your sweet tooth

Saccharin (Sweet n Low) is 300 times sweeter than sugar, aspartame (Equal) is 200 times sweeter than sugar and sucralose (splenda) is 600 times sweeter than sugar. Such sweeteners will increase your taste for sweet things. If you don't overcome your sugar cravings, any healthy eating plan will be difficult. Artificial sweeteners have also been shown to promote the same blood sugar fluctuations as regular sugar, resulting in “sugar lows” which will increase appetite and cravings.

What if you don’t use artificial sweeteners?

Don’t be fooled. Almost every diet product on the market has some kind of artificial sweetener added to it. Even some children’s snacks are now being made with sucralose (Splenda) and most flavored waters contain sucralose or aspartame.

For more information on why artificial sweeteners are ruining your weight loss efforts plus a recommended healthy eating plan to supplement your exercise program, go to The Diet Solution today.

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