While we cannot show causation
IOW, we're spending our grant money, despite knowing that our entire approach is useless.
And yet people are living longer!
Didn’t the “experts” also tell us coffee, butter, gluten and everything else would kill us?
I drink diet coke and have for years, and I’m in excellent health! According to these experts, myself and others should have died from diet coke years ago!
You can post what you like, but this story is junk science! CNN is the ones pushing it.
Pfft!
Everything kills 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!
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.
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?
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.
Water strikes me as a diet drink. Should we avoid?