The days of drinking diet sodas as a guilt-free option are over.

Calorie-Free sodas and drinks have now been scientifically and clinically proven to be linked to diabetes and metabolic syndrome.

The peer-reviewed journal Diabetes Care reported that people who drank at least one diet soda a day at the beginning of the study had a 67 percent higher relative risk of type 2 diabetes compared with the people who drank none.

An increase of 67 percent higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes is a huge statistical number, and a clear warning that diet drinks are not the solution to the obesity and diabetes epidemic.

The researchers reported that zero-calorie soda also increased the risk of metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors linked to obesity that increase your chances of heart disease, diabetes, and stroke by 36 percent.

In the published clinical study, researchers examined diet soda consumption between the years 2000 and 2002, and then screened them for type 2 diabetes for 5 years.

Results of this large study was part of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), an investigation involving more than 6,800 people between 45 and 84 years old.

SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION

The fact that diet sodas and drinks cause metabolic problems and blood sugar issues sounds crazy, but the human body determines how and where foods and drinks are stored and metabolized in the human body.

The scientific reason is that diet sodas and calorie-free sodas trigger what’s called the Cephalic Response – Also known as Brain-Glycemic-Indexing, causing the brain to believe that you are consuming a huge amount of sugar (based on the sweetness level perceived on the tongue).

In response, the brain commands the body to release large amounts of insulin into the bloodstream.

The problem is that no actual calories ever arrive in the gut, and the insulin goes on to trigger fat-storage, increased incidence of type 2 diabetes, and a metabolic cascade that heart disease, diabetes, and stroke by 36 percent.

BOTTOM LINE

Calorie-free sodas and drinks cause more metabolic problems and increased risk of type 2 diabetes than regular sugar-laden drinks.

SOLUTIONS

The solutions lie within the brain and its response to orally ingested foods and beverages.

Designing sodas, drinks, and beverages that do not trigger these brain-driven metabolic cascades will represent the future of health and wellness globally.

Sodas, drinks, and all beverages can be designed not to trigger negative metabolic responses, but it requires an in-depth scientific knowledge of Brain-Glycemic-Indexing, the Glycemic Index, and more importantly, the ability to formulate beverages that are Low Glycemic and Non-Cephalic.

Unfortunately for the beverage companies, this information in not available to the public and lies within the hands of clinical researchers who have conducted Human In Vivo Clinical trials on both the Glycemic Index and Brain-Glycemic-Indexing.

The ability to formulate beverages that don’t do what diet sodas do to the human body, is the science of the future, and represents an entirely new category of drinks.