Is Diet Coke actually Satan?
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Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »
FTFY.
Artificial sweeteners may increase weight gain or slowc weight loss in some individuals because poorer choices are made elsewhere in their diets, or because they become our remain addicted to sweetened foods and consume more such foods with caloric impact. Affect all? No, but for sure some.
As for physical impacts it's early days but sufficient research exists to warrant caution.
http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/health/artificial-sweeteners-linked-to-obesity-epidemic-scientists-say-1.2769196
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24862170
Funding Agencies: The study was fully funded by The American Beverage Association.
Disclosure: JCP, JOH received consulting fees from The Coca-Cola Company outside of the submitted work. The remaining co-authors declared no conflict of interest.
This doesn't mean the study is bad or invalid. It just means to look a bit harder at the science-y bits and conclusions to see if there's bias there. Often, there isn't; sometimes, there is.
Major conflict of interest. One strike.
All the participants had to be drinkers of NNS beverages to begin with. That's odd. Also, the graph at the end showing 5% is misleading, arbitrary and indicates bias when examined critically. It could have just as easily been a graph showing "percent of people who lost 1% or gained 2.4%, etc..."; manipulate the data subtly to make it look the way your client wants it to look. Need to see better studies that show the long term effects and are not funded by beverage companies.
Man, if only there was a link like I gave before to examine, which had a half dozen or more studies about these things.
And if only it were possible to recognize and attempt to combat our own biases instead of being a warrior of righteousness.
I personally don't see an issue with this study especially when taken in conjunction with the others.
Nice try assuming my biases. I actually drink diet sodas on occasion and have an open food diary to prove it. I am biased against bad science, however.0 -
RobertDupuy wrote: »Diet coke gives me a massive headache. I don't know why, I wanted to like it. When I was young, Coke was a favorite. First time I had a cigarette it made me sick, shoulda listened to that. I quit smoking, but it was years later. If a person never got a headache from it, then they didn't....but if you did at first... Your body might have been telling you something. I wonder how many diet coke drinkers can actually give it up. My observation is it sure appears to be addictive.
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inb4 addiction argument0
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christinev297 wrote: »
Yet you keep posting.0
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