Drinking carbonated soft drinks related to weight gain - even diet drinks.

Study shows that diet soda water drinks are as likely to be related to weight gain as regular sugared soda water drinks are. A study from the University of Texas Health Science Center states "On average, for each diet soft drink our participants drank per day, they were 65 per cent more likely to become overweight during the next seven to eight years, and 41 per cent more likely to become obese," said Fowler [Study author Sharon P. Fowler, MPH.]

"it didn't matter whether people were drinking diet or regular soft drinks: drinking sodas of any kind seemed to increase the risk of weight gain."

"Last year, a group from Purdue University found that when rats were fed the equivalent of diet soda, they ate more high-calorie food afterwards than did rats fed the same amount of a drink sweetened with high-calorie sweetener.

"Your taste buds may be temporarily satisfied by the sweet taste of a diet pop, but your brain isn't fooled and it still wants to make up for calories later on," theorizes Canada AM's nutritional consultant Leslie Beck."

This confirms a suspicion I have long had. Diet soda waters don't help avoid weight because they don't fill the need for sugar. In fact, I think the fake sweet actually makes you want more sweet, but real sweet that satisfies hunger for sweet.