There have been plenty of ridiculous weight loss products throughout the years. From juice cleanses to diet pills, men and women have tried almost everything to shed pounds. But there is one thing nobody equates with getting slim: soda. We all know that soda, even the diet kind is bad for you, right? Well that theory may change, now that Pepsi has created a new beverage that supposedly blocks fat! So is this too good to be true, or are we looking at the future of weight loss here?
This new “miracle” soda is called Pepsi Special, and it’s packed with fiber and other goodies that allegedly block fat:
[It] contains dextrin, a dietary fiber that dissolves in water and is found in fiber supplements…A Suntory news release claims the drink acts by ‘suppressing the absorption of fat’ and can inhibit the rise in triglycerides after a meal, making it, potentially, the first ‘healthy’ soda.
But if you want to try out this new weight loss plan, you’d better live in Japan. Right now, Pepsi Special is only being sold over there. But I’m sure if people see results, we’ll see it in the States and beyond very soon! [via Time]
Would you try this soda for weight loss?
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Nope. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true.
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The Japanese are so tiny and petite anyway with adifferent diet. I cannot take their results seriously anyway until they show results from all cultures.
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Doubtful. Very doubtful.
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how about they stop eating fatty foods, instead of drinking a fat blocking soda to block the incoming fatty foods
sunflower / 366 posts
You know what else helps you lose weight? Coke.
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If it was a diet soda with fiber, I’d be interested. Fiber is great for binding and scraping out the remaining crap along your digestive tract, so I would at least give it a shot regardless of if it really blocks fat or not.
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Why wouldn’t you introduce this in the US, considering we’re the fattest country out there & would probably actually produce noticeable results..?
sunflower / 413 posts
@cook0129@xanga - Just an FYI, diet soda often contains artificial sweeteners or sugar substitutes that your body doesn’t know how to metabolize. These are essentially chemicals that float around your body because it doesn’t know how to break it down. They can often lead to consuming calories in other ways that can make you fat and the chemicals are said to possibly cause cancer. It’s actually safer to drink soda that has real sugar in it versus the fake.
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Okay, so as a Human Biology major, I can tell you that YOU DON’T WANT TO BLOCK ABSORPTION OF FAT. If it’s not absorbed, it’s excreted, which means it ends up on its way to your stool….Which means you will have fatty stool. This manifests as diarrhea. Not good. Yes, you will consume less calories, but at a pretty nasty cost.
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@cook0129 – oh, I’m fully aware of that. In essence, I’d rather be fat and have cancer than be diabetic. I’ve been drinking Diet Coke longer than I can remember. I can’t stand the taste of regular soda.
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@emotastic7@xanga - Yea what he said. It’s not cool, I know because I don’t have a gallbladder and it’s much the same.
orchid / 248 posts
@cook0129@xanga - to be honest, being diabetic isn’t THAT bad lol.
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@Trueinnerbeauty – hahaha, yeah, my comment may have been slightly dramatized
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If youre trying to live healthier, just live healthier! These “diet” sodas appeal to people so much because it appears to offer a way to “live healthier” without actually changing. I doubt this works, and even if it did, drinking soda, no matter how “healthy” it claims to be, isn’t the way to loose weight or live healthier.