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Diet soda once ruled the weight loss kingdom but unfortunately, that time has swiftly passed. At this point, these sweet beverages should come with a warning label. Not only are they one of the worst drinks for diabetics, but diet sodas can also take a serious toll on your brainand the health hazards dont stop there.

A newstudypublished in Current Biologymay convince you to finally drop the pop.According to the researchers, there could be a sweet spot (haha) when it comes to those artificial sweeteners in diet soda.

For the experiment, Yale neuroscientist Dana Small designed five beverages, all of which were sweetened using the identical amount of sucralose, an artificial sweetener. Although each tasted about as sweet as a drink containing about 75 calories of sugar, Small varied the calories using a tasteless carbohydrate called maltodextrin. Each drink contained zero, 37.5, 75, 112.5, 150 calories.

Participants consumed each drink six times over a period of several weeks, twice in the lab and four times at home. Small then evaluated their brain scans to determine how each drink affected the brains reward mechanisms.

Logically, higher calorie counts should yield higher rewards in the brain. But contrary to expectations, the participants brains signaled the highest rewards for the 75-calorie drinkhigher than the 0-calorie drink and the 150-calorie drink. Whats more, their metabolic responses to the high-calorie drink were lower than for the medium-calorie drink. What gives?

As it turns out, sweetnessnot caloriesdetermines the bodys response to food. When sweetness and calories are matched, as with the 75-calorie drink, the bodys reward mechanism and metabolic rate actnormally. Butthe body becomes confused when it tries to digest something that has higher or lower calorie count relative to its sweetness.

Its like the system threw up its hands and didnt know what to do, Small told Vox.

Withyour metabolism thrown for a loop, its likely that the extra calories arestored in muscle, fat, or the liverall of which is pretty bad news. (And if you want to lose weight,avoid this one food at all costs.)

Equally worrisomeis that more and more companies are creating foods that contain blends of sweeteners and carbohydrates, Vox reports. That goes for diet sodas as well as sports drinks like Powerade, which, as Small notes in her paper, contains bothsugars and artificial sweeteners.

Yep, youll definitely want to toss out those soda cansASAP. Your body will thank you.

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