I have never understood soft drinks in the morning. It sort of feels like adolescence never overcome...
Posted on 02/09/2011 8:31:24 PM PST by fightinJAG
Just as you were starting to feel virtuous for having switched from sugary sodas to low- or no-calorie substitutes, a new study comes along suggesting that diet sodas might be bad for your head and your heart.
The study, which followed more than 2,500 New Yorkers for nine or more years, found that people who drank diet soda every day had a 61 percent higher risk of vascular events, including stroke and heart attack, than those who completely eschewed the diet drinks, according to researchers who presented their results today at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference in Los Angeles.
Still, the researchers aren’t ready to tell consumers to skip diet sodas. More studies need to be done before that happens, said the report’s lead author Hannah Gardener, an epidemiologist at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
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.Daily diet soda tied to higher heart attack risk 7 relationship mistakes smart people make Giffords speaks, asking for toast with breakfast Achoo! Cold and flu season is worse this year ..“I think diet soda drinkers need to stay tuned,” Gardener said. “I don’t think that anyone should be changing their behaviors based on one study. Hopefully this will motivate other researchers to do more studies.”
That advice may not stop some from skipping their diet drinks. “This is pretty scary,” said Denise Gainey, a 49-year-old administrative assistant from Amelia, Va. Worried that she might have inherited a higher risk of heart disease
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Just todays big health alert more to come.
I thought it was supposed to give you cancer! Lighten up Linda and have a Diet Coke! Regardless of what you think, you are not going to live forever.
Got heart trouble? Drink diet. Kind of what's been going on, and, of course, they die anyway.
I have never understood soft drinks in the morning. It sort of feels like adolescence never overcome...
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I can just see the MSA(Master Settlement Agreement) with Nutrasweet - think of all that money rolling into the states!!!
So, will the high sugar soda bans now include diet sodas - or will they take the sugar sodas off the ban list and replace with diet?
Such fun.../s
They will pry my Coke Zero away from my cold, dead fingers.
Aspartame: Making corn syrup look like a health food since 1981.
Yes, that describes me pretty well. Definitely not an old fogey image.
O NOES!
Then I should have been dead Decades ago...
Wow, my diet coke is bad for me? Then what about the sugary kind?
What if I just go back to smoking. bleh
Ummm...just wondering. Overweight people have a higher risk of vascular events. Overweight people most likely are the souls ingesting diet sodas daily.
Does the study thus reveal a danger from diet sodas or does it confirm the dangers from being overweight? Excerpts from the study, as noted here, don’t mention that the groups were controlled for BMI status. One would think that they must have been, but then again....one wonders.
Correlation is not causation.
Uh-huh.
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