Are diet drinks making you fat?

A study out of the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio found a positive relationship between diet drinks and weight gain. After following 1550 residents of San Antonio for 8 years, they found that for every can (12oz) of diet soda consumed a day a person's risk of becoming obese went up by 41%. Now, this does not mean that diet soda causes obesity, but there does seem to be a link. Some believe that the sweetness in diet soda causes a person to crave more sweet foods. Or, it could be that someone switching to diet soda is already gaining weight and is trying to balance the calories by drinking no calorie drinks. Whatever the answer may be, the best drink to quench your thirst is still water (if you must drink diet soda, try to keep it to no more than one a day). Or, as I just posted, try iced green tea, but brew your own and stay away from the green tea drinks that are full of sugar.