Articles I Love

This is a small group of my personal favorite links to scholarly articles and brainy information about diet sodas, dieting, and healthy living.  I hand-picked these links out of my giant bookmarks page, whittling down a list of about 100 links to the eight most-valuable articles for my transition from a soda addiction to drinking more diet drinks and water.

Duke Health on Diet Sodas: Facts and Misconceptions

This is the simplest introduction to the science behind diet soda that I've found on the Internet. The article spend a good bit of space talking about the truth behind rumored health risks associated with drinking diet drinks.

Sugary Drinks vs. Diet Drinks

From the Harvard School of Public Health, this lengthy resource compares every aspect of regular and diet sodas, talking about the risks behind each, providing a comparison between high-sugar caffeinated beverages and their diet counterparts.

Cancer Rates among Aspartame Consumers

This CBS news story about the impact of aspartame on cancer rates is an example of the clash between some researchers who bend the rules of science to prove a link between artificial sweeteners and all sorts of chronic illnesses. This article is one of the weapons in my arsenal, examples I use to disprove the widely-held misconception that saccharine and other sugar substitutes are carcinogens.

The Physiology of Weight Loss

I turn to this breakdown of the science behind weight loss produced by the American Diabetes Association any time I need more information about the hard data behind how to properly regulate weight. I may not be a nutritionist, but articles like this help me understand a little more about current medical opinions on healthy weight loss.

Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

From time to time, this scholarly journal about nutrition will reprint full versions of articles on a wide range of topics related to nutrition and healthy living. This journal prints too many good articles for people interested in eating better to reprint just one, so I've made the site a place I check daily for news from the scientific community about dieting and facts about food.

Night-time Fasting & Weight Loss

A report published in the LA Times gives me a lot of hope. The article shows a link between a daily 16 hour fast (between dinner and breakfast) and continued weight control. I now try to avoid consuming anything caloric between my 6:00 pm dinners and my 10:00 am breakfasts, thanks to what I learned in this article.

A Qualitative Investigation of Dieting

From the Nutrition Journal, an abstract of a report on various diet programs. The conclusion, that "they all work, if you stick to them" underlines the importance of creating a diet program that you can live with and stick to, long-term.

Three Studies of Fad Diets

I've been tempted from time to time to jump on a dieting bandwagon, whatever fad diet my best friend is currently struggling with. I return to these three articles on fad dieting for a remind of why fad diets are usually a bad idea. It seems that most fad diets are fads for a reason; often the claims made by authors of fad diet books are unfounded or based in weak science.