Today's news on Diet Soda/Pop

vismal

So I just read the full text of the study (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4498394/). This is from the conclusion, "We observed a striking, positive dose-response relationship between increasing diet soda intake and escalating abdominal obesity, which represents a potential pathway for future heightened cardiometabolic risk in this vulnerable population". Basically saying drinking diet drinks are associated with abdominal obesity and abdominal obesity is a risk factor for many things, strokes included. As others pointed out drinking diet drinks correlates with obesity and stroke but does not necessarily cause those things. On average do people who drink diet drinks also consume more/burn less calories per day than those who do not drink diet drinks? If so is the diet drink causing the problem or the calorie disparity? Show me a study that tracks normal weight for height individuals that drink diet drinks compared to normal weight for height individuals who do not drink them. That would do more to convince me that diet drinks might be unsafe.

tomteboda

Forget today's "march for science" political protests. I'd march if it meant no more junk sensationalism in science reporting. And a major cleanup of science publishing.

glassofroses

indigoblue9572 wrote: »

All those reports that say diet drinks cause weight gain - I'll never understand that. I incorporate some artificially sweetened beverages into my weekly diet and have never craved more sweets, ate more than I planned or felt any different than if I drank a plain glass of water...

Isn't it generally because you eat more actual food because you think 'oh I've had a diet drink'?

At the end of the day, everything increases the risk of something. Being alive increases your chance of death 100%. I have two terminally ill parents on both ends of the spectrum, my father never took care of his diabetes, probably because he had really early onset dementia (vascular, brought on by diabetes) and is in kidney failure and my mum who has Stage 4 breast cancer and is the healthiest of all of us. So you're damned if you do, damned if you don't in my book so while I don't go out of my way to drink diet drinks but I won't say no if it's offered to me and I want it.

And in regards to even with my dad's case of type 2 and dementia, he was never a diet soda drinker. He has always been a coffee drinker.