For most people with diabetes, the word “diet” would lead them to believe that the product is better for them (or anyone looking to lose weight as a matter of fact).

I mean, it only makes sense, right? Diet means less sugar and fewer calories, so it must be better for us.

Well, unfortunately, that is not the case, and the diet phenomenon is something we have been lied to about for many years.

I am going to crack the code on why these diet beverages are detrimental to your health and how just two diet drinks per day could double your risk of diabetes.  

These Drinks Double the Risk of Diabetes

Yes, you heard that right.

This finding is credit to Swedish researchers. These science-minded experts also found that sugar substitutes such as the ones found in diet sodas may interfere with gut bacteria.

This news is not to be taken lightly because we now know that an imbalanced intestinal bacteria can also pave the way to diabetes.

Moral of the story: reconsider adding diet beverages in your diet.

That’s not all…

The research team also discovered that people who drank five or more diet drinks on a daily basis had more than four times the chance of being affected by diabetes! They concluded that artificial sweeteners added to these beverages were just as harmful as consuming regular old table sugar.

What are these results telling us?

The marketing for advertising these beverages as better options for those with diabetes is a total scam, and it’s important for us as consumers to dig up reliable and science-based information.

Artificial Sweeteners: Worse Than Regular Sugar

As if things weren’t bad enough, artificial sweeteners are now thought to increase appetite, potentially contributing to weight gain.

The lead researcher in this diet beverage study, Josefin Lofvenborg, also stated that these sweeteners might also be responsible for negatively affecting the fat tissue as well as the microbiota.

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