Posted on 02/15/2019 9:06:46 AM PST by bitt
Diet drinks have always tasted terrible and gave me headaches.
You can post what you like, but this story is junk science! CNN is the ones pushing it.
Pfft!
I hear you, but lots and lots of people, including myself, love diet coke!
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Everything kills you.
Me and my RC.
I am cutting back on them and drinking more water. Infused type sometimes as well.
You have zero proof it was due to diet soda! Show causation and I’ll but you BS!
I’M sure she had other risk factors! Diet coke is not a risk factor for heart disease!
I just read a report infused waters cause cancer.
Wow, making up bull sh*t and calling it a “study” is easy!
Your body needs potassium, so a little of each per week, isn’t a bad thing. Living on them, would not be good.
I use Kosher coarse sea salt and grind it myself; same w/ Pink Hawaiian salt.
https://www.drstevenlin.com/salt-good-for-you/
More idiots at work!
It should not take a rocket scientist to understand the difference between cause and effect.
Any person who has the need to drink diet drinks is by that fact, overweight. The overweight obesity is what causes the increased risk of clot-based strokes, heart attacks and early death in women over 50.
Get it right or crawl back under your rock and shut your traps, you over educated fools!
It’s a jungle out there - Randy Newman.
Really misleading headline. They are talking about Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi and whatever other soft drinks are out there.
I make a diet shake many mornings with unsweetened protein powder, frozen fruit, organic milk and/or bottled water. Sometimes add a little organic unsweetened yogurt. That’s my Diet Drink.
Interpretation really depends on their control group. If compared to water, it is probably a believable outcome. But people drink diet sodas as a substitute for sodas with some form of natural sugar. I would expect that comparison to show no significant difference between the groups. I drink water or unsweet iced tea myself.
My father used to drink it. I tried it, and had to add the salt back it, along with hot sauce, pepper, horseradish, a celery stalk, and vodka.
Since the “scientists” don’t control for all the other factors, and can easily confuse cause with correlation, this is bull$hit like most other studies.
“Previous research has shown a link between diet beverages and stroke, dementia , Type 2 diabetes , obesity and metabolic syndrome, which can lead to heart disease and diabetes. “
hmmmm. I wonder if that’s because so many people WHO ARE ALREADY fat, don’t exercise and have an unhealthy lifestyle drink diet soda?
This is a junk study that makes the basic logical fallacy of correlation is not necessarily causation.
The study is a meta study of other studies of approximately 12,000 European women 50 to 72 years old who were asked questions and followed for 22 years. The findings are minor correlations of morbiditywithin overall morbidity without adjusting for the fact that in this group many became more obese after having been obese for much of their lives and were entering the period where adult onset diseases such as stroke, heart attacks, peripheral artery disease, and diabetes, all of which have a much higher morbidity rate than the observed diet drink rate, are diagnosed or observed.
Obese persons are also the population most likely to adopt drinking “diet” or lower calorically sweetened foods and drinks in an effort to lose the weight that is their primary health risk which has the highest combined morbidity rate when the morbidity of all diseases associated with obesity, those exact diseases listed in the previous paragraph among others. The so-called observed morbidity associated with diet drinks, much less the named “Coke” in many hyped headlines, is a mirage of poor statistical analysis or funding bias. The researchers are seeing what they want to see.
There is a difference between “artificial sweeteners” , such as aspartame (nutrasweet), and natural sweeteners, such as monk fruit or sugar alcohols. Splenda is made from sugar, but there are those who say that it has become made dangerous by the chlorine molecule used to create it. I would imagine some people’s DNA make-up react against them, more than others.
I’ve been drinking diet drinks since high school and while I’m not 80, I’m no spring chicken. :) I’ve had multiple tests on my heart function and have no problems there.
“My father used to drink it. I tried it, and had to add the salt back it, along with hot sauce, pepper, horseradish, a celery stalk, and vodka.”
lol. It took a bit, but I’m actually use to the low sodium V8 now...
but I wouldn’t mind you making one of those for me.
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