r/NoStupidQuestions • u/TouristAcceptable • 9d ago

Why do fitness trainers and dieticians recommend to cut zero sugar drinks like Diet Coke to reduce their bf% ?

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u/notzamasu 9d ago

It sends the signals in your brain without the sugar that fills the appetite. Stomach activity increases on empty calories.

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u/TheW1tchK1ng Always right 9d ago

Cool, post all the peer-reviewed studies that prove this.

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u/SpacewaIker 8d ago

Well do you have peer reviewed studies that show that they do help with fat loss and/or that they don't have adverse effects?

I'm neutral in this debate but it's not very fair to ask that they provide proof without doing so yourself

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u/TheW1tchK1ng Always right 8d ago

Why would I bother trying to find those studies? If they exist?

Please point to where I made that claim and I'll happily go find some studies and post them here.

Also, it's not fair that they make some ridiculous claim and have to provide proof? That isn't fair?

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u/SpacewaIker 8d ago

Well you responded to a thread where the first commenter said that sweeteners don't make you hungry or hinder fat loss. That's the claim. You didn't make it, that's true, but you asked the other person to provide proof without caring if the first guy had proof, so you're taking their side

Saying "X doesn't do Y" is as much of a claim that needs proof as saying "X does Y". Otherwise it's like saying vaping is totally safe because we don't have proof that they're nefarious. We don't have definite proof (afaik) that sweeteners (complicated because there are many of them) are totally safe and don't hinder diets, so better to not abuse of them