We made the perceived healthy soda swap years ago – we swapped cans and bottles filled with favorite sugary soft drinks for their diet counterparts. The diet versions rarely taste like the real thing, the aftertaste lingers for hours, and the worst part is the man-made sweeteners in diet sodas actually promote weight gain. Yippee! Seriously, man-made sweeteners, like aspartame and sucralose, have been thoroughly researched now and have been proven to disrupt the body’s ability to count calories. The brain interprets ‘sweet’ as ‘sweet’, so man-made sweeteners with zero calories are interpreted as calorie laden sugar calories. Plus man-made sweeteners can cause a brain chemistry imbalance that leads to headaches, depression, fatigue and mood swings. Get off the man-made sweeteners in diet sodas by choosing natural sodas that refresh without unwanted side effects.
The Real Thing
If Coke used to be your soda choice, but the 140 calories per can made you swap over to diet coke, nix the man-made sweetener in the silver can and choose Zevia Natural Cola.
Zevia Natural Cola tastes like the real thing, but is sweetened with all natural stevia. Stevia is a natural herbal sweetener that not only sweetens like sugar, but reduces cravings for sugary and fatty foods.
Is There a Doctor in the House?
Swap a can of diet Dr. Pepper for a can of Dr. Zevia and you’ll never go back. Dr. Zevia has captured all the robust and fruity flavors of Dr. Pepper, and has zero calories, zero sugar and zero aspartame. Dr. Zevia is sweetened with all natural stevia and a natural sugar alcohol called erythritol. Since erythritol is a natural sugar alcohol, it does not cause the gastric side effects as man-made sugar alcohols like xylitol or maltitol. As an added bonus, erythritol will not harm teeth.
Get to the Root of the Problem
Hard to beat a root beer float on a hot summer’s day. But the real thing is a rare treat due to the high calorie content of the real thing and diet root beers failing miserably at capturing the flavor. Virgil’s Diet Root Beer has gotten to the root of the problem and swapped out the sweeteners and spices. Virgil’s Diet Root Beer has full bodied root beer flavor with a healthy twist; it’s sweetened with stevia and flavored with the metabolism revving herbs ginseng and gingko biloba. 6 tiny calories grace a bottle of Virgil’s Diet Root Beer, but it’s well worth the ‘splurge’.