With obesity in America reaching epidemic proportions and the media focusing continually on weight loss, the pros and cons of diets are often discussed. One such discussion involves diet soda:

Does Diet Soda Cause Weight Gain?

According to an article published in the Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/29/diet-soda-weight-gain_n_886409.html) two cited studies found there to be a correlation between drinking diet soda and weight gain.  However, WebMd (http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/diet-sodas-and-weight-gain-not-so-fast) cites the same two studies to report that diet soda does not necessarily cause weight gain.

Of the two studies, one involved feeding artificial sweeteners to rats to see if the sweetener use would fool the body's evaluation of caloric intake while the second study was an observational study of 9000 men and women asked to drink carbonated beverages and whose weight gain was compared to people not drinking carbonated beverages.

As the study methodology of the first trial has not yet been conducted on humans and the study methodology of the second not quite scientific, the results are somewhat inconclusive.

So do diet sodas cause weight gain?  Perhaps one explanation can be understanding how current eating habits adversely effect weight gain through altering metabolism.  Watch the following video and judge for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpoAtwVyzZI