1. Points & Issues
Presentation
By Jessica Weakley

2. Diet soda gives people a false sense of control of
their dietary intake of calories and leads to an
unhealthy lifestyle.

3. • Diet soda makes people think that they are making
a “healthier choice” by drinking it instead of
regular soda. While the label might list few calories
for the product, the likely side-effect is not.

4. http://www.nih.gov/researchmatters/february2014/02032014diet.htm
• “Heavier adults who drank
diet beverages tended to eat
more calories in the form of
solid food.”
• “The total calories consumed
by overweight and obese
adults who drank diet
beverages were similar to that
of those who drank sugary
beverages.”

5. Low-calorie substitutes in food and drink may
actually make dieters pile on the pounds.
• Researchers discovered that the taste of fat and
sugar gears the body up to expect a high-calorie
hit.
• When it doesn't come the body's mechanism for
controlling food intake becomes confused,
making us eat more.
• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2070053/Put-Diet-
Coke-Low-calorie-substitutes-actually-fool-body-GAINING-
weight.html

6. http://www.fda.gov/food/guidanceregulation/guidancedocumentsregulatoryin
formation/labelingnutrition/ucm064894.htm
• The caloric value of a product containing less than 5
calories may be expressed as zero or to the nearest 5
calorie increment (i.e., zero or 5 depending on the level).
Foods with less than 5 calories meet the definition of
“calorie free” and any differences are dietarily
insignificant.

7. • This small amount can
accumulate into hundreds
of “hidden calories” a year,
meaning fat!
So, when you drink a “zero calorie” soda, you may actually be
drinking a few extra calories.