Council Chronicle

Friday, April 16, 2021
Log in
  • National News
  • Business & Economy
  • Technology
  • Science
  • Health
  • About CC
    • Our Team
    • Contact Us
    • Privacy Policy GDPR
    • Terms of Use

Pages

  • About Council Chronicle
  • Contact Us
  • Our Team
  • Privacy Policy GDPR
  • Terms of Use

Recent Posts

  • Former Wife of Prolific Arizona Serial Killer Speaks Up First Time after Scottsdale Suicide June 29, 2018
  • Indiana Couple Arrested After Authorities Discovered Cruel Punishment Device in Home June 28, 2018
  • Schizophrenic Oregon Man Who Was Seen Carrying His Mother’s Head Committed to Psychiatric Facility June 27, 2018
  • Texas Lawmen Looking for Four Suspect Who Tortured Child During Home Invasion June 27, 2018
  • Retirement Home Resident Reported Fake Fire to Draw In Firefighters and Shoot Them June 26, 2018
  • Arkansas Man Kills Wife, Sticks Body In Chest Freezer Before Committing Suicide June 26, 2018
  • West Virginia Man Arrested After He Tried to Baptize Family by Drowning Them in the Bathtub June 25, 2018

Consuming Diet Beverages Ups Junk Food Intake Too

September 11, 2015 By Adam Martin Leave a Comment

Email, RSS Follow
Consuming Diet Beverages Ups Junk Food Intake Too

Consuming Diet Beverages Ups Junk Food Intake Too

Surprise, surprise! Consuming diet beverages ups junk food intake as well.

If you didn’t expect this finding, think back to all the times you bought a zero-sugar beverage only to complement it, simultaneously or later with some potato chips, some burgers or a few slices of cheesy pizza.

According to a study featuring in the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Journal, consuming diet beverages ups junk food intake. If we are committed to lasting lifestyle changes, perhaps we should give a second thought to choosing this type of beverages. One good reason being that upping junk food consumption pretty much defeats the purpose of consuming diet beverages.

An Ruopeng, the lead author of the study and professor of kinesiology and community health with the University of Illinois, strengthens this thesis:

“When people consume diet beverages, they need to be more cautious about consuming additional calories from discretionary foods, because that will completely undo the weight-control purpose”.

The study drew on data collected between 2003 and 2012 on 22,513 U.S. adults. While all participants chalked down everything they ate and drank in just two nonconsecutive days, the data was conclusive enough.

Consumption of drinks – split into five categories: coffee, tea, alcohol, sugar-sweetened beverages and no-calorie drinks – was associated with a certain category of foods, as it resulted from the data scribbled down by the participants.

Of particular interest to the researchers were the discretionary foods. This category won its name due to the fact that people do not consume this type of food as a real nutritional feast. Rather, foods in this category are ‘leisure foods’. Overall, the researchers included 661 items on the list of discretionary foods. All contain high sugar quantities, are high in saturated fats and sodium and low in nutrients.

Looking at the calorie count, this was of course higher during those days when high-calorie beverages were consumed. However, during the days when coffee and diet beverages were consumed, although the overall number of calories was lower, the highest number of calories came from unhealthy foods, mostly part of the discretionary food list.

What exactly prompts us to engage in such consumption practices remains unclear. Researchers were not able to pinpoint what are the mechanisms at play. According to An, it could well be that while drinking diet beverages, we feel we somehow gained the right to up our junk food intake. And feel less guilty about it because we feel it’s compensated.

Or indulging in some discretionary food and feeling guilty over the high caloric intake, we turn to diet beverages.

Either way, the study is an interesting peek into dietary behaviors.

Photo Credits: Pixabay

Email, RSS Follow

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: calorie intake, diet, diet beverages, discretionary food, junk food

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published.

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 18 other subscribers

Recent Articles

ethics in dictionary highlighted

NIH Will Examine Ethical Problems of One of Their Studies

March 27, 2018 By Adam Martin Leave a Comment

biomutant character

Eleven-Minutes Long Biomutant Trailer Prepares You for Amazing Gameplay and Mechanics

August 26, 2017 By Adam Martin Leave a Comment

intime alibaba

Intime May Be Acquired By Its Founder And Alibaba

January 11, 2017 By Jesse Skelton Leave a Comment

Newborn baby

A Woman Gave Birth to Baby After Fertilizing Frozen Ovary

December 16, 2016 By Lee Raulin Leave a Comment

Parkes radio telescope

Hunting Aliens with Parkes Radio Telescope

November 11, 2016 By Ben Beckstrom Leave a Comment

man suffering from election season stress

Stressed Out? Here Are 7 Ways to Get Rid of Election Season Stress

October 19, 2016 By Adam Martin Leave a Comment

Disney World wants to prevent fraud.

Disney World prevents fraud by scanning children’s fingers

September 8, 2016 By Adam Martin Leave a Comment

artificial intelligence

How will the Artificial Intelligence will affect our life by 2030?

September 3, 2016 By Adam Martin Leave a Comment

opera sync

Opera Sync resets passwords after it was hacked

August 30, 2016 By Adam Martin Leave a Comment

viping

Why are teens viping – flavours or nicotine?

August 26, 2016 By Dustin Smith Leave a Comment

sex abuse

Doctors in sex abuse cases return to work. What happens with their victims?

August 25, 2016 By Adam Martin Leave a Comment

affection

Affection or food – which is more important for a dog?

August 19, 2016 By Adam Martin Leave a Comment

Chipotle restaurant

Chipotle to Open its First Burger Joint

July 30, 2016 By Ben Beckstrom Leave a Comment

Chicken sandwich from Chick-fil-A

Chick-fil-A Rolls Out Protein-Packed Grill Breakfast Sandwich

July 20, 2016 By Ben Beckstrom Leave a Comment

Related Articles

  • parasite

    Russian Woman Horrified to Find Out That She Had Parasite Crawling Under Her Skin

    Jun 22, 2018
  • wheelchair

    Birmingham Man Paralyzed From the Waist Down Minutes After Being Cleared by Hospital Staff

    Jun 19, 2018
  • emergency room

    Los Gatos ER Doc Suspended for Mocking Patient Suffering from Anxiety Attack

    Jun 18, 2018
  • soft and hard palate

    Mexico Man Gets Red Spot on Palate After Performing too Much Oral Sex

    Jun 15, 2018
  • Console gaming

    Extended Screen Time, Gaming Linked to Lack of Sleep and Depression in Teens, New Study Reveals

    Jun 6, 2018
  • surgery

    Welsh Woman Commits Suicide After Surgeon Removes Ovaries

    May 30, 2018
  • shower head

    Indian Man Rushed to Hospital With Shower Head in Rectum After Accidental Slip

    May 29, 2018
  • New Delhi Surgeon Suspended.

    New Delhi Surgeon Reprimanded After Operating on the Wrong Patient

    Apr 23, 2018
  • workplace with desks and computers and plants and one man working

    A Noisy Workplace Can Seemingly Lead to Health Problems (Study)

    Apr 10, 2018
  • UVA Health

    Thousands of Patients Records Exposed After Hacker Targets UVA Health Devices

    Feb 23, 2018

Categories

  • Breaking News
  • Business & Economy
  • Entertainment
  • Health
  • National News
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Technology
  • World News

Copyright © 2021 CouncilChronicle.com

About · Terms of Use · Privacy Policy · Contact