Persuasive Essay On Diet Soda

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Diet sodas have decreased in sales due to recent findings on its potential health effects. The sales for diet soda have decreased 7 percent over the past year regarding amid research on diet soda products. Though the word diet means the kind of food/drinks a person habitually eats/drinks, diet soda is a chemical cocktail misleads millions of people. Diet soda was created by Kirsch Bottling in Brooklyn, New York with the product called No-Cal. The idea was for people who were diabetic, dieters. Diet coke as veered away from that design recently, steering people to believe that it is more for “dieters.” Diet soda is misleading to consumers by confusing their body and the consumer and it causes more problems than solving them. One reason consumers should …show more content…

Artificial sweetener is a non-caloric substitute for real sugar that is often intensely sweeter. The reason for using artificial sweetener is to replace real sugar and reduce calories. Consumers don’t realize when drinking diet soda overtime it dulls your senses to naturally sweet foods like fruit. In a weird way, diet sodas and cigarettes aren’t that much different when it comes to dulling senses. The only difference between diet soda and cigarettes is that cigarettes dull consumers’ senses faster than diet soda does. Even worse than dulling your senses, artificial sweeteners have been proven to have the same effect on your body as sugar. Artificial sweeteners trigger insulin, which sends your body into fat storage mode and leads to weight gain. Consumers also get tricked into wanting to drink another diet soda because they’re not consuming any liquid calories. The bad

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