Posted on 07/23/2007 3:13:48 PM PDT by HarmlessLovableFuzzball
That may be true but then again it's the extra calorie intake thats making you fat, not Diet soda as the article misleadingly implies in its title. I have found when I am drinking D.C. my hand instinctively reaches for a bag of lays, and I am very well aware of it, but my other hand promptly pulls it back.
Especially moderation.
;-)
I too heard that so I did a test. I checked my blood sugar then drank a diet soda. Then I rechecked my blood sugar every fifteen minutes. My blood sugar actually went down. So I drank another diet soda. No effect on blood sugar count. I eventually downed four diet sodas within an hour and a half with no change in blood sugar. i.e. sometimes up 1 of 2 points sometimes down 1 or 2 points.
Ive given up starches and sugars. Haven’t had a soft drink in years.
BTW, your “fasting glucose” is simply not a suitible measurement anymore. What you need is an A1C reading.
You're wrong. The researchers have added some definite facts to the body of scientific knowledge. Just because they haven't jumped to a conclusion about what it all means does not mean they have not made an important contribution.
The researchers found that compared to those who drank less than one can per day, subjects who downed one or more soft drinks daily had a:
-31 per cent greater risk of becoming obese (with a body mass index of 30 or more).
-30 per cent increased risk of adding on belly fat.
-25 per cent higher risk of developing high blood triglycerides or high blood sugar.
-32 per cent higher risk of having low HDL levels.
Airman first class?
No one is ridiculing a healthy (healthful) diet here, I probably eat healthier than many FReepers. The title of this article is outright deceptive, because most people wouldn't bother reading the article if the title didn't contain the word 'Diet'. After all what's new about the connection between (regular sugar laden) soda and diabetes/ obesity. But you throw the word 'diet' in the title and people start reading, like I did, and it's not until the end that you find the real cause.
This is typical Drive-By journalism.
Science + (Politics, Religion, or Buisness) does not make for good science. This is total garbage....
Remember, your body doesn't care where the sugar comes from ~ your liver will restructure all of it (except fiber) into glucose.
Granola is composed primarily of poisonous wheat and wheat byproducts. You should avoid it as much as possible.
Diet sodas are made from loads of unnatural chemicals and only fat people seem to drink them
That simply is not true. They have no more unnatural chemicals than regular colas ,Preservatives etc. They are favored by people of all sizes. I would dare say more fat people drink regular cokes in vastly more numbers than drink diet cola as do the general populace.
I remember hundreds of things from growing up that were going to kill me, then a couple years later they were good for me.
I have been drinking diet soda for better than 25 years.
And not for the "diet" aspect of it. My mouth just prefers the taste.
It's much better than any one-time test like a fasting glucose measurement. You can trick those ~ without some serious blood transfusions you can't fool the A1C and take that trip on the Space Shuttle.
6 pack a day of Diet Pepsi for me. With an occasional caffine free regular pepsi thrown in.
Not my favorite that caffine free stuff. But when its around and I am thursty I will drink it.
And that is after I have a pot of coffee in the morning.
"... about 20% of the population over the age of 65 has diabetes mellitus type 2." - link
20 million is 20/300ths or 1/15, and that's still greater than the genetic possibility of 5%.
All of those estimates were developed BEFORE the genetic links were established.
I may rewrite that Wikipedia article if I get the chance.
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