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Diet Soda Linked to Increased Belly Fat in Older Adults
Yahoo News ^ | 3/17/15 | Agata Blaszczak Boxe - Livescience.com

Posted on 03/17/2015 4:10:24 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

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To: NormsRevenge

In other science news, people who use more band-aids, tend to get cut more.


21 posted on 03/17/2015 4:22:19 PM PDT by Washi
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To: Veggie Todd

;^)

Just stringin’ ya along for a bit...


22 posted on 03/17/2015 4:22:51 PM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: Mears

I stopped drinking diet, went to tea or water, but I did notice that I craved sweets after drinking a diet soda...hit me hard like my brain knew I wasn’t getting the real deal. Fortunately I still fit my pants I did 10 years ago.


23 posted on 03/17/2015 4:23:21 PM PDT by gwgn02
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To: SZonian

I drink a lot of diet coke or pepsi. I’ve found I can lose weight without changing that consumption. I just stop the chocolate and pizza... and the ice cream at bedtime. I do run a couple of miles every other day. That helps too :)


24 posted on 03/17/2015 4:23:24 PM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: NormsRevenge

Everything increases belly fat in older adults...we are not as active. Muscle loses elasticity and so on...


25 posted on 03/17/2015 4:24:29 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: NormsRevenge

Fake sweetenerd are worse than real sugar, who did not see that coming?

I am convinced corn syrup is worse too. A bit.


26 posted on 03/17/2015 4:25:18 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: NormsRevenge

I always have a diet soda when I go to Golden Corral, and my waistline has been expanding. I guess the story is right!


27 posted on 03/17/2015 4:25:31 PM PDT by Stevenc131
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To: SoFloFreeper


28 posted on 03/17/2015 4:26:06 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: SoFloFreeper

Could it be “Butterfield’s Paradox”?


29 posted on 03/17/2015 4:26:58 PM PDT by Perdogg (I'm on a no Carb diet- NO Christie Ayotte Romney or Bush - stay outta da Bushesh)
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To: Mears

I drink about 3-4 Nalgenes (32 ozs. capacity) per day...

A change of pace is nice sometimes...Coke Zero or Diet Mt. Dew is what I look for at FF joints if no tea.

I do have a small vice though...Throwback Mt. Dew made with real sugar. 1 or 2 per week.

A few years ago, I was drinking up to 6 diet sodas per day...quit cold turkey.


30 posted on 03/17/2015 4:27:04 PM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: Don Corleone; PLMerite

This is my “Big Egg” theory (so-named by PLMerite)

“So, “they” destroyed the egg business, ran in and purchased the assets, and now eggs are good again.

“They” are rich.”

So now:
Here they come again. Catch Us If You Can
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJYgNqOFBLk


31 posted on 03/17/2015 4:27:34 PM PDT by donna (Pray for revival.)
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To: Washi

yep, butterfield’s paradox.


32 posted on 03/17/2015 4:27:39 PM PDT by Perdogg (I'm on a no Carb diet- NO Christie Ayotte Romney or Bush - stay outta da Bushesh)
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To: Bobalu

Maybe, but I stopped drinking diet soda when I was 23 and lost 15 pounds over the next 2 months, even though I replaced it with regular soda. About a year later I stopped drinking soda completely and lost a few more pounds.

Artificial sweeteners can really mess up your body.


33 posted on 03/17/2015 4:28:31 PM PDT by NorthstarMom
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To: kjam22

I used to drink a lot of diet sodas, at one point I was up to 6 cans per day, but really cut it back to almost 0 per week...maybe 1 or 2 now.

It’s the late night eating/binging that will get you. I cut out my macadamia “turtles”, and Cheez-Its at bedtime.

I’m trying like heck to cut out pastas/breads...but man, it’s like an addiction to carbs...

But you smashed the nail on the head...if you burn it, you can eat it...


34 posted on 03/17/2015 4:31:26 PM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: NormsRevenge

So what are they saying? That diet soda actually causes you to get fat? Typical shallow article that doesn’t delve into causation vs. correlation.


35 posted on 03/17/2015 4:32:25 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: NormsRevenge

Yes, but I want to know what these people ate.


36 posted on 03/17/2015 4:39:46 PM PDT by grimalkin (We are a nation under God. If we ever forget this, we are a nation gone under. -Ronald Reagan)
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To: NormsRevenge

Perhaps they’ve gotten the cause and effect reversed....I figure people with a weight problem or have struggled with weight during their life are more likely to drink diet sodas, and people that have never had a weight problem are more likely to drink regular sodas. So if that is the case it would make sense that the people who drank diet sodas gained more weight, because they were genetically predisposed to gain weight in the first place, the diet soda had nothing to do with it one way or the other.


37 posted on 03/17/2015 4:39:51 PM PDT by apillar
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To: gwgn02

I stopped artificial sweeteners when I realized they gave me the munchies.

Personally, I see nothing wrong with good old sugar...in moderation.


38 posted on 03/17/2015 4:40:01 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: NormsRevenge

100% of all people that fall off of bikes were seen to be riding bikes. 100% of people that don’t ride bikes never hurt themselves riding a bike.

Bikes need to be banned


39 posted on 03/17/2015 4:45:33 PM PDT by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: fatnotlazy

You’re right, I just hate the taste of pop with sugar in it...its like 10 teaspoons full of it. A little sugar here and there aint gonna hurt.


40 posted on 03/17/2015 4:46:10 PM PDT by gwgn02
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