[edweena]

I saw this article copied in our Sunday paper.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/06/healthscience/05symp.php

“Researchers have found a correlation between drinking diet soda and metabolic syndrome — the collection of risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes that include abdominal obesity, high cholesterol and blood glucose levels — and elevated blood pressure.”

Of course if the researchers depended on self-reporting, that opens up a whole new can of worms. They need to do some testing under controlled conditions.

[Myrddin]

“Researchers have found a correlation between drinking diet soda and metabolic syndrome — the collection of risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes that include abdominal obesity, high cholesterol and blood glucose levels — and elevated blood pressure.”

Correlation is not causation. The people with metabolic syndrome may well have selected diet soda AFTER they had a problem as a means to avoid making it worse.