Why diet coke isn't great for weight loss

Contrary to the label, diet coke may not be an alternative for people looking to lose weight.

Research has come out that points to the artificial sweetener that is in diet drinks being responsible for an increased appetite. 

The volunteers that took part in the study ended up making up for the missing calories at lunch.

The findings, published in the International Journal of Obesity, were described as "surprising" by the lead author, who gave people three different kinds of sweeteners, or sugar, before recording their food intake for the rest of the day.

This research follows a study that came out not long ago that linked two glasses of the diet drinks to a doubled chance of getting type 2 diabetes.

For the experiment, 30 men were given a variety of drinks, some diet and some not, and then given as much fried rice as they wanted. The men that had consumed the diet drinks ate on average, 80 more calories than those who hadn't.

On top of that tow hours after being given the low calorie drinks, the subjects had a considerably highly blood sugar level than those who had the full calorie variants.

The study concluded by saying that low-calorie drinks can help for weight loss as long as there is a calorie controlled diet surrounding it. 

Bottom line is drinking sugar free drinks won't help you diet at all, but as long as your combining them with a strict meal plan, you will lose weight.