Posted on 07/23/2007 10:21:22 PM PDT by neverdem
Two foods once thought healthy — sushi and diet soda — pose grave health threats, according to two studies released yesterday.
The city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is launching a campaign against sushi, encouraging women who are pregnant, breastfeeding, or planning to have children in the near future to stop eating raw fish and cut down on their intake of even cooked fish with high levels of mercury. The campaign was prompted by a citywide survey that showed that women of childbearing age in New York had three times the level of mercury in their blood stream as did women in the same age group nationwide.
Meanwhile, a study published online in Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association, by nine researchers affiliated with Harvard, Tufts, Boston University, and the federal government's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute from a center at Boston University found that people who drank one or more soft drinks a day, including diet soda, were 48% more likely to have conditions that lead to heart disease. The thousands of participants of the study had a 31% increased likelihood of becoming obese, a 25% increased risk of high blood sugar, and a higher risk for low levels of "good" cholesterol, according to an article in the Los Angeles Times.
The soda industry and the seafood industry lashed out at the studies.
"This study doesn't prove any link between soft drinks and increased risk of heart disease. Its assertions defy the existing body of scientific evidence, as well as common sense," the president of the American Beverage Association, Susan Neely, said of the soda study. "It is scientifically implausible to suggest that diet soft drinks — a beverage that is 99 percent water — cause weight gain or elevated blood pressure."
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Thanks. I always thought it was just a vegetable sushi.
How can sucralose be bad for you if your body doesn't metabolize any of it?
The methanol in aspartame is converted by the body into formaldehyde, but the amount is so small that the liver easily eliminates it. You get more than three times the amount of methanol (and therefore more formaldehyde) from a 12 oz. apple juice than you do from a 12 oz. soft drink using aspartame. I knew guys who enjoyed drinking straight methanol martinis and lived to be old men. There are better things to worry about.
“There are better things to worry about.”
Some people just aren’t happy unless they’re not happy about something. People will obsess about the tiny amounts of supposedly neuro-toxic or cancer-causing Aspartame in a soda, while ignoring the crap in the air they breathe, or the water they drink, or in the non-artificially sweetened sodas or whatever.
Diet soda made with Nutrasweet is a very very low sodium drink. Each 8 oz serving contains <1% of the daily recommended amount of sodium. You cannot attribute weight gain/loss to the sodium in diet cola, because there isn’t any sodium. There have been various theories about the effect of Nutrasweet on the body, but none have had any merit, yet.
As for this garbage article...
The study makes a connection between diet soda and obesity. No big deal, obese peole drink diet soda. However the article establishes a cause and effect.
How about sucralose or cyclamate?
Vinegared rice and miso soup with pickled daikon on the side...breakfast of champions...(at least my tummy likes it better than most....)
Because it grosses some people out.
Amen
Miso soup with leftover rice or tofu, with chopped green onions for breakfast. Great minds think alike!
2)If you eat something salty (potato chips, buttered popcorn, spicy food) with diet soda, the contrast between the sweet and salty encourages you to eat more. Eat any of the above with a glass of water and the enjoyment is diminished.
3) There are theories swirling around that your body insulin will react as though it is getting real sugar, which would cause weight gain. But it's just a theory.
No. It has been a myth for many years. There are plenty of studies that show current artificial sweetners are perfectly safe. And taste is a matter of , well, taste.
I prefer diet soda...regular tastes like drinking syrup to me.
I drink a lot of the stuff, and contrary to this new scare mongering, my bad cholesterol is low, good cholesterol is high, blood sugar is right where it should be, blood pressure is low normal and resting heart rate is low. Guess what? I am also 250 Lbs at 6'. That makes me "obese".
Tell me again how diet soda or any other artificial sweetener is bad for me? It seems if the stuff was going to kill somebody it would kill a fat guy like me, yet despite being fat, I am healthier than most middle aged guys who are in the "normal" weight range.
Maybe all that diet pop is good for me??? LOL
I feel like an idiot asking this, but are sucralose or cyclamate put in diet sodas instead of aspartame or are those things put in regular sodas?
No. The one thing that sushi ALWAYS has as an ingredient is rice. Raw fish is commonly rolled or served on top of the rice, but not always. Sashimi is generally raw fish, although the Japanese will also sometimes refer to other raw meats as sashimi as well if they are served in the correct fashion, but if a Japanese person mentions sashimi, 99.9% they are referring to raw fish. If they mention sushi, they are referring to bite sized pieces of rice that are usually but not always topped with fish. FWIW, I am married to a Japanese woman, lived briefly in Japan and worked for a year in a Japanese restaurant that included a sushi bar, and yes I did occasionally make sushi, but not that often as it doesn’t look that authentic to have a gaijin behind the sushi bar.
Never understood why some folks would want to ruin fish by cooking it.
Sashimi American recipe:
Buy a large chunk of Sashimi grade Ahi-Tuna. Cut it into strips until the plate is piled high (at least a half pound per person). Eat with lots of Wasabi, Saki and a little rice.
You’ll be protein drunk (as well as the regular kind if you do it right).
Sympathies to those of you living far from the ocean. I once didn’t like seafood at all (cause I couldn’t get any fresh fish, except catfish, in KC).
Thanks for the ping.
straight methanol martinis?
It’s not things like cholesterol or blood pressure that people worry about with Aspartame, that’s never really been an issue. Aspartame has been shown to increase your risk for certain cancers like lymphoma, brain lesions and brain cancer, and it generally has toxic properties and in large amounts can cause things like your hair falling out and anemia. It is broken down and forms things like formaldehyde and methanol, and does a lot of other weird things.
All this is still controversial of course and I don’t like to be the health nazi when I do a lot of bad stuff myself, but I figure why risk it when it tastes bad anyway thats all I was saying, your ingesting an unnatural chemical. Why not just drink iced tea or coffee if you need caffeine.
Sure, no vermouth necessary. They even manufactured the product themselves. Metabolizing a one carbon alcohol is a slower process and puts the liver at greater risk but as long as you don't drink too much of it, the liver can manage it just fine.
People who worry about the minute amount of methanol in aspartame, or apple juice, or alcohol that's converted to formaldehyde don't understand just how good a job the liver does at removing poison from the body. As it is said, the dosage makes the poison.
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