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Originally Posted by Kelly_S
jillybean, Yes it has been document that many people actually eat more when they consume diet drinks. I wish I could remember where I filed the study at (I am not at home so I only have some of my files with me on the computer) that documents this.
If you pay attention and don't exceed the caloric intake of a weight loss program diet drinks are a good way to get in liquid without increasing the calories.
Sorry if it was confusing the way I worded it.
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I've posted about that study in the past -
see this post of mine from another thread, written in June 2005. Note the comments by the study authors.
My personal opinion (which I've posted before) due to my own experience, is that this might be somewhat Pavlovian - simply, many people are accustomed to eating something with a flavored beverage - think of all the advertising for Coke and Pepsi from the past 50 years (remember "Things go better with Coke"?). Advertising and marketing is highly influential in our decisions in what to eat, what is 'good' and 'bad' or fashionable, etc. (actually, the main reason that Coca-cola's advertisers began to use color advertising featuring food such as burgers and pizza with an icy cold Coke was due to the limitations of color photography at the time in which skin tones would come out really orangey or weird-colored - but there was no problem whatsoever in photographing food. (see the book "Soda Pop: The History, Advertising, Art and Memorabilia of Soft Drinks in America" by Lawrence Dietz).
I always think of the book
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe where the White Witch gives Edmund a hot drink and says "It is dull, Son of Adam, to drink without eating". IMO that's pretty much ingrained into many of us - it has nothing to do with the ingredients of diet soda - BTW, there are no 'fillers' in diet Coke; it's mostly carbonated water, with some caramel coloring, flavoring (like regular Coke, made of natural oils and extracts for the most part, I suspect), caffeine and whatever sweetener is used in the verision you happen to be drinking (aspartame, sucralose, or saccharin which is still used in the fountain version in the US).