Posted on 10/22/2016 12:30:00 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Drinking two servings of carbonated soda — even the diet kind — could double the risk of diabetes, according to a Swedish study.
Research by the Karolinska Institute on 2,800 adults found that those who consumed at least two 6½ ounce servings of soft drinks daily were 2.4 times as likely to suffer from a form of type 2 diabetes.
Many sodas are sold in 12-ounce cans, meaning that one and a half cans would be enough to double the risk.
According to the study, people who drank a liter of soda saw their chances of suffering from diabetes increase tenfold.
The increased risks were the same regardless of whether the drinks were sugary or artificially sweetened, according to the findings published in the European Journal of Endocrinology.
Researchers said the sugary drinks may have induced insulin resistance, triggering the cases of diabetes.
The artificial sweeteners in the diet drinks may stimulate and distort appetite, they said, increasing food intake, and encouraging a sweet tooth. Such sweeteners might also affect microbes in the gut leading to glucose intolerance.
The research was a retrospective study, which relied on participants to recall their diet habits.
Josefin Edwall Löfvenborg, lead author, told The Telegraph that soft drinks might influence glucose metabolism and insulin sensitivity, leading to the increased risk of latent auto-immune diabetes, a form of type 2 diabetes.
“In this study we were surprised by the increased risk in developing autoimmune diabetes by drinking soft drinks,” he said. We next plan on investigating what could counter this risk.”
More research was needed into the impact of diet drinks, he said.
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And probably quintuple your risk of cancer.
For probably thirty years, I was a three soda a day minimum drinker. In 2010, I went cold-turkey and quit. I might drink three sodas a year now....mostly on planes. Just on sugar content alone, I agree, it’s a mess.
I would like to know the controls on this study.
Did they control for overall caloric intake? For percent of body fat?
If they did not, this might simply be a marker for more calories, more risk.
Check out Steven Milloy's Junk Science Judo if you're interested in a nice exposition.
"May" and "might" doesn't sound very convincing. No real evidence about calorie free sweeteners, just conjecture.
I thought diet side had zero calories.
Study: enjoying your life will lead to death in 100% of cases.
Never ever touched the stuff...got type 2 anyway...
I spoke to my Doctor last time I was in about sweeteners. She said Truvia was OK as it is naturally occurring and to avoid Splenda and the others - FWIW.
Typically artificial sweeteners taste funny and give me headaches.
I could never stand diet drinks.
Been drinking cans of flavored seltzer for a couple of decades. Don’t like the sugary stuff. No diabetes. Took care of myself. Exercise and ate well till age 50, when I got a chronic illness that they don’t know how I got it or how to fix it. Now at 67 my health is NOT the ‘60 is the new 40’ thing.
Ain’t knocking healthy living..... but enjoy yourself NOW (in moderation)....you ain’t getting out of this world alive ..... (unless you’re an astronaut)
Often times those who drink diet drinks think they can eat something else with sugar or carbs because of the calories they “save” by not drinking sugared sofa. Nope, it doesn’t work like that. They eat MORE than they “saved!” Same here in this so called “study.” Just because someone drank diet sofa did not mean they did not chow down on high carb content food and could eat more because they were avoiding the sugar in the sofa. That’s what doubled the diabetes risk, not the diet sofa.
” I’ll take a Double Quarter Pounder combo with a Diet Coke “
IOW, disregard this article. Studies based on recalled diet habits are notoriously unreliable.
“Drinking soda is probably linked to other poor dietary choices.”
Very good point. This is just an association study, and a retrospective one at that:
“The research was a retrospective study, which relied on participants to recall their diet habits.”
I’m very suspicious of association studies because they don’t really address whether the things that are associated are actually related to each other in a cause and effect manner. For example, “100% of people who died had eaten carbohydrates within 3 months of death.”
That's not as bad as ”I’ll take a Quarter Pounder combo with a Diet Coke with an extra Quarter Pounder, please.“ the first just has double the protein. My version has twice the bread! About 60 grams of carbohydrates more, all of which turns to glucose!
I take in only about 50 grams of carbs per day, max. 40 preferably. . .
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