Posted on 07/23/2007 3:13:48 PM PDT by HarmlessLovableFuzzball
"We really don't know," he said. "This soda consumption may be a marker for a particular dietary pattern or lifestyle. Individuals who drink one or more sodas per day tend to be people who have greater caloric intake. They tend to have more of saturated fats and trans fats in their diet, they tend to be more sedentary, they seem to have lower consumption of fibre."
What a ridiculous, pathetic non story of a story !
It would make much more sense to state that folks with the genes for Type II diabetes drink one or more sodapops a day.
Some people obviously don't have enough to do.
Diet soda makes people fat. Have you ever seen anyone, not in an ad, drinking diet soda?
Not as a rule, of course, but it seems to me to be the case.
Yeah, well I went off ALL diet pop, aspurtame, chocolate and sugar about 8 weeks ago and it almost killed me! I had panic attacks. My doc wanted to put me on blood pressure meds, anti-depressant and lipitor.
Finally after about 3 weeks I felt better. Never did take any of that medicine and I’m thinking about changing drs. But there definitely is something to the aspurtame stuff. If I accidentally eat something with it in I get ill.
Glad I quit!
It’s garbage because they go on and on about the evils of soda (including ‘Diet’, which is why it caught my attention) and then in the end blame it on calorie rich foods that people tend to eat with their soda.
I guzzle down at least a two liter bottle of Diet Coke everyday.
The article is highly misleading. Drinking diet soda does not cause “metabolic syndrome” ... it’s just that those who drinik doet soda are moreds likely to have it.
Diet Coke is the new drug of choice for a lot of people.
There is almost a 50% chance of a person dying if they are alive. This is based upon firm scientific facts with world wide consensus. I think Al Gore is going to sign onto this study next week.
I have heard that diet sodas can still trick the body into producing insulin, just as it would if it was real sugar, and it messes up the caloric gauge, and makes people actually eat more, than if they had just drank the regular sugar drinks.
I remember when coffee was going to kill us. Now it turns out that not only is that not true, but coffee is one of the highest sources (ounce for ounce) of anti-oxidants of any food or beverage.
Most of the "researchers" in these studies went into them looking to back up their pre-conceived beliefs, so it's never surprising when, amazingly, the "study" proves them right.
Research has been shown to cause cancer in laboratory mice.
You just learned the hard way (withdrawal symptoms) that all that stuff is bad for your body. I have to laugh at FReepers who ridicule a healthy diet as if it was some stupid liberal idea that should be avoided.
Water, Tea and Beer: If it was good enough for the framers of the Constitution, it's good enough for me! ;-)
In all things....moderation.
I used to drink quite a lot of the stuff. When you get used to it- ‘full strength’ soda tastes cloyingly sweet. I quit drinking anything (with occasional and rare exceptions) other than black coffee and water- because I was on the verge of (yet another) heart attack.
*Now let me be clear, here.*
I’m NOT asserting that diet soda had anything to do with my then-impending heart attack. I had a crappy diet, ate too much of it, and didn’t get any appreciable exercise.
Since I am sick of heart surgeries, I decided to go on the offensive. Very lean, tightly managed diet, which is largely designed around supporting my daily workouts on the road and in the gym. Once I made the commitment, it wasn’t that hard to get off of the soda and cheeseburgers and pizza and whatnot. I really don’t miss any of it.
Nonsense. I drink 3-5 per day, and I’m out my ideal weight and my fasting glucose is very normal.
I haven’t drunk any soda in at least 5 years. I feel a lot better now that I just drink water, herbal tea and 100% fruit juices. I stay away as much as possible from aspartame, caffeine, excessive sugar, and especially high fructose corn syrup, which is one of the most harmful artificial ingredients ever created. Just Google “high fructose corn syrup” to see how bad this stuff is. Unfortunately, it’s in just about everything.
In many ways, diet soda is actually more harmful than regular. Sugar is bad, but aspartame is a cancer-causing ingredient that is probably worse.
I’m not a granola-crunching health nut, but I found that I don’t miss sodas at all.
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