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Diet Sodas = Kidney Problems

Ready for some more bad news? Hang on tight! Yet another study has found that while drinking diet soda may lower your caloric intake, it may also double your risk of developing kidney problems. The research found that women who drank two or more diet sodas a day lost 30 percent of their kidney function during the study. It also showed that drinking less than two diet beverages a day does not seem to have a negative effect.

In the last 20 years, diagnoses of kidney disease have doubled in America alone. Researchers suspect something in the American diet must account for this trend, and drinking diet soda may play an integral role.

Duh!

A Special Treat

While studies about the potential dangers of diet soda have not all been scientifically conclusive, they should make you stop and think before opening your next can of diet soda. But you don’t have to give up your favorite drink altogether, as small amounts don’t seem to be cause for concern.

So the question is, if regular sugar soda isn’t good for you, and diet soda isn’t healthy either, what should you drink? If you guessed water, you’re right. Pat yourself on the back!

Other healthy choices include small amounts of 100-percent fruit juice or skim milk. If you don’t care for the taste of water, try adding a squirt of cranberry juice or lemon to your water, or try sparkling water. Heck even iced tea will get the job done… NO sugar NO fake sweeteners.

Listen, no one else is going to tell you this, so I will. Losing weight (specially fat) takes work. You gotta plan your eating, make working out a priority and dump your bad habits and the people who encourage you to eat crap and skip your workouts.

But if you want it bad enough then you’ll do it.

Mack Armstrong is known as the Renegade Fat Loss Coach and writes a Fat Loss blog.

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