artificially sweetened soda gives you diabetes

richardheath

Now unless all of the diabetes specialists that my workplace has unleashed on us this year are totally wrong, I'm pretty sure that diabetes is caused by the gut, pancreas, and liver not working properly... As the gut produces the hormone GLP-1, which tells the pancreas how much insulin to produce, which in turn tells the liver how much sugars to produce (simplified cliff notes version from our seminars).... Pretty sure this can happen when not ever drinking diet soda too...

I think there are so many factors that can lead to diabetes that epidemiological ones like this are bound to pull up something.

And yeah - I very rarely drank soda (and never diet), was not that overweight for that long, and still managed to get prediabetes.

donyellemoniquex3

Everything kills you
Everything gives you cancer
Everthing gives you diabetes

GET OVER IT !

shimmygirl411

Agreed.......correlation does not mean causation.

Cadori

And this is why watching Mad Men gives me the shakes.

ducky715

Everything kills you
Everything gives you cancer
Everthing gives you diabetes

GET OVER IT !

This. Honestly, anything can kill you. People have made it through generations surrounded by chemicals/ consuming them so I think we'll be okay.

Lyerin

I'm glad to see you guys can joke around about this stuff but diabetes is very serious problem in America

I'm glad that you are glad. Man, we are just so glad!

Alison12121

Actually, the study doesn't say that artificially sweetened beverages give you diabetes. It says that there is an association between the artificially sweetened beverages and diabetes, and that other factors they didn't control for in the study may be involved in causing diabetes. I wouldn't be surprised if a later study proves it, but association doesn't mean that causation.

To quote, they "cannot rule out that factors other than [artificially sweetened beverage] consumption that we did not control for are responsible for the association with diabetes, and randomized trials are required to prove a causal link between [artificially sweetened beverage] consumption and type 2 diabetes."

Anyway, I agree with you that the artificial stuff isn't good for you, and I try to stay away from it. The FDA can say it's safe all they want, but my body just doesn't like them. Some of the artificial sweeteners give me headaches and make me nauseous, so they're definitely not good for me.

aakaakaak

I've seen more reliable experiments conducted at a children's science fair.

To be fair, there are students out there getting world recognition for some of their science projects. Unfortunately, the only news link I can find right now is the student in Florida who got expelled for accidentally making a "bottle bomb".

haroon_awan

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ilmb87

Everything kills you
Everything gives you cancer
Everthing gives you diabetes

GET OVER IT !

LOL. Pretty much this. (I don't drink soft drinks anyway, except MAYBE a few times a year.)

myofibril

to quote from the study

Both SSB(sugar-sweetened beverages) consumption and ASB(artificially sweetened beverages) consumption were associated with increased T2D(type 2 diabetes) risk.

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2013/01/30/ajcn.112.050997


Maybe this will finally stop all you saboteurs who try to push diet soda on us

Yes, and to quote the results of the recent InterAct study which have recently been published and which has been well designed:

After further adjustment for energy intake and BMI, the association of sugar-sweetened soft drinks with type 2 diabetes persisted (HR 1.18, 95% CI 1.06, 1.32), but the association of artificially sweetened soft drinks became statistically not significant (HR 1.11, 95% CI 0.95, 1.31).

In other words be careful of sugar sweetened drinks (fruit juices / full sugar sodas / power drinks) but not so much for AS...

Full text: http://static.rasset.ie/documents/news/diabetes-sugary-drink.pdf

Cadori

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saxmaniac

Megan Mullally is super hot.

pobalita

I will not drink any soda (diet or otherwise) even if there is no link to any Diabetes type (I or II).

That chemical stuff is bad for my body, my health and my wallet.

To each its own

this^^ I picked up a can one day and saw that every ingredient other than water was a man-made chemical. No more for me.

ImtheOnethatsCool

Pixi_Rex

Actually no... I drank 13 diet sodas ones day while sitting on my feet and I have yet to rue the day...

But I am pretty sure it had something to do with sitting on my feet.. any other way and I probably would have gotten the diabetes.

pspetralia

Now unless all of the diabetes specialists that my workplace has unleashed on us this year are totally wrong, I'm pretty sure that diabetes is caused by the gut, pancreas, and liver not working properly... As the gut produces the hormone GLP-1, which tells the pancreas how much insulin to produce, which in turn tells the liver how much sugars to produce (simplified cliff notes version from our seminars).... Pretty sure this can happen when not ever drinking diet soda too...

QFT!! Lots of foods have been touted as the food to give you diabetes....doesn't make it so. There are many contributing factors people!!!

RllyGudTweetr

I will not drink any soda (diet or otherwise) even if there is no link to any Diabetes type (I or II).

That chemical stuff is bad for my body, my health and my wallet.

To each its own

this^^ I picked up a can one day and saw that every ingredient other than water was a man-made chemical. No more for me.

Would you drink a liquid composed of H2O, C6H12O6, C6H8O7, with other trace chemicals naturally occuring?

blytheandbonnie

nevermind