{"id":14245,"date":"2015-03-17T21:02:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T20:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/?p=14245"},"modified":"2016-03-06T10:19:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T09:19:50","slug":"diet-coke-and-other-zero-calorie-fizzy-drinks-can-actually-make-you-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/diet-coke-and-other-zero-calorie-fizzy-drinks-can-actually-make-you-fat\/","title":{"rendered":"DIET COKE AND OTHER ZERO CALORIE FIZZY DRINKS CAN ACTUALLY MAKE YOU FAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/35.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14246\" alt=\"3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/35.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/35.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/35-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I thought Diet Coke was supposed to be a a zero calorie drink and it isn\u2019t supposed to have an effect on the waistline but a new study by researchers in the University of Texas claims Diet Coke and other zero calorie fizzy drinks can actually make you fat. Wow.<\/p>\n<p>The study focused on 749 adults aged 65 and older \u2013 and measured their diet drink consumption, waist size and weight at three follow-up meetings over a decade and the researchers observed \u00a0that diet drink users had an increase in waist circumference almost triple that of non-users \u2013 and that people who drank artificially sweetened drinks daily fared the worst.<\/p>\n<p>Lead author Sharon Fowler, MPH, from the University of Texas Health Science Centre at San Antonio recommends that older individuals should try to curb their consumption of artificially sweetened drinks.<\/p>\n<p><b>Phil<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought Diet Coke was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2584],"tags":[2688],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35671,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14245\/revisions\/35671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}