Posted on 04/30/2017 9:22:08 AM PDT by SMGFan
This study comes to some alarming conclusions about these beverages
Diet soda is getting more bad publicity. PepsiCo said this week that its latest quarter was boosted by “guilt-free” products such as diet soda and bottled water, as consumers move away from sugary drinks, but more research is casting a pall over artificially-sweetened beverages too.
Artificially sweetened beverages may be linked to an increased risk of stroke and dementia, according to a recent study by the American Heart Association’s peer-reviewed journal Stroke. The researchers looked at 2,888 people over the age of 45 (with a median age of 62) for stroke risks and 1,484 people over the age of 60 (with a median age of 69) for risk of dementia. After adjustments were made for age, sex, education, caloric intake, diet, exercise, and smoking, they found that diet soda drinks “were associated with an increased risk of ischemic stroke, all-cause dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease dementia.” (The study cites correlation rather than causation.)
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I drink water.
And scotch.
A friend in his mid-sixties dropped about 40 pounds. His drink of choice when he was heavier was a diet Coke. We recently had lunch together and he mentioned he had given up diet Coke when he started his diet. He said that it was sweet and he liked the taste but when he drank one he immediately wanted something that was sweetened with real sugar. I had read that real sugar gives some people a kick like caffeine. He apparently realized that the diet Coke satisfied the need for something sweet but the lack of the kick made him crave real sugar in a larger amount than he would otherwise have consumed. (He looks wonderful; like he did when we worked out together five times a week. That was a LONG time ago.)
The only evidence I have seen that diet sodas are bad are all physiological.
For example, I ordered a diet coke so the calories saved allow me to eat two big Macs...
Yes, because the incidence of dementia is so much greater than ever before.
If people don’t want to drink diet soda, I am all for it .
Otherwise, any attempts to restrict it are nanny-state liberalism.
Remember, even good Scotch is around 50% water. In case you’re counting water intake and all.
I always said I’d rather eat the sugar than drink it in carbonated water or stirred into tea. But only regular water helps during hot weather or when I am sick.
Pepsi is dead to me.
I had a Diet Pepsi yesterday at a car show and I got to thinking... Gee, this is the first Pepsi I’ve had in years.
In fact, we now know that unhealthiness of cyclamates is almost identical to saccharin and aspartame! Maybe it's time to re-visit cyclamates and come up with an improved formula? (By the way, I've actually drank PET Cola when it used cyclamates back in the 1960's. A good thing about it is that it really does taste like real sugar with very little "chemical" aftertaste.)
I drink diet colas but they're no cure for high carbs.
drinking diet sodas is deadly- i once saw a fella strugglign to open a diet soda can as he walked across a street and he was struck and killed- Nope- No more diet sodas for me thanks
You mean that the claim of unhealthiness can't be show and therefore doesn't exist?
I hate, hate, hate the taste of diet soda. I also hate that they made like 99% of all gum with fake sugar.
“I also hate that they made like 99% of all gum with fake sugar.”
There was nothing like a good mouthful of Juicy Fruit gum.
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Went one even better.
Gave up sodas entirely.
Why half-butt it?
I see what you did there.
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