diet soda dangers

What about:

QUOTE (Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis)

"When study participants drank sucralose, their blood sugar peaked at a higher level than when they drank only water before consuming glucose," Pepino explained. "Insulin levels also rose about 20 percent higher. So the artificial sweetener was related to an enhanced blood insulin and glucose response."

UNQUOTE ( http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130530/Popular-artificial-sweetener-can-modify-how-the-body-handles-sugar-find-researchers.aspx )

The study quoted was:

- on obese individuals
- was only re sucralose
- was very small
- did not actually result in anything other than an increase in insulin
- it ignores the fact that people do not just consume sucralose and glucose (which is what was used in the study)
- the actual study is not cited in the link
- nice cherry picking of quotes:

"The elevated insulin response could be a good thing, she pointed out, because it shows the person is able to make enough insulin to deal with spiking glucose levels. But it also might be bad because when people routinely secrete more insulin, they can become resistant to its effects, a path that leads to type 2 diabetes."

"She said further studies are needed to learn more about the mechanism through which sucralose may influence glucose and insulin levels, as well as whether those changes are harmful. A 20 percent increase in insulin may or may not be clinically significant, she added."

Diet soda is absolutely toxic for your body. This is an incomplete list of the health issues associated with soda consumption:

Obesity
Diabetes
Heart disease
Liver damage
Insomnia
High Blood Pressure
Osteoporosis
Various cancers

said no scientific evidence ever.*


*obviously someone jacked full of caffeine isn't going to sleep. But that's hardly insomnia.

Here is a study regarding agressive prostate cancer. It has been published in a medical journal, so the truth is starting to come out.

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/soda-day-raises-man-risk-prostate-cancer-article-1.1208695

Yeah, read the link. It's the sugar that seems to be the link there. They repeatedly say "soda and other sugary drinks" and even compare it to men who eat lots of starchy carbs (rice, for example). So it's not the soda that they're saying is the risk, it's the sugar. And diet soda has none.

(Also, this is a popular media report on an academic study in an academic journal, and while this one does seem to come across as unembellished, you can't really tell without reading the actual study. Newspapers, magazines, etc make mistakes all the time like this. Or so we learned in Research Methods.)

Um No!!! but in for the popcorn....

...his little hoof....such cuteness!

"Here let me inject these rats with 500000 grams of aspartame" Oh wow, aspartame causes cancer.

OMG!!! you people have way too much time on your hands!! who cares. If it helps her to lose weight, then more power to her. Science is dumb!

OMG!!! you people have way too much time on your hands!! who cares. If it helps her to lose weight, then more power to her. Science is dumb!

This makes me a sad panda. :sad:

I hope this article helps you soda drinkers. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/25/woman-drinks-soda-16-years-heart-problems_n_3495446.html

I read this article and this lady drank ONLY soda for 16 years. Most of which is cola. So duh, she would have heart irregularities from all the excess caffeine. Plus she had potassium issues. Carbonation affects the potassium levels in your body. Plus, she had family history of heart issues.

Moderation is the key.

Hey, why don't people pick on hot dogs? Hot dogs only have 11% protein. The 89% of hot dogs is fat and water. Not to mentioned the nitrates......

I actually think it is a testament for soda. I mean, only consuming one thing for 16 years!

So are you going to red line your body until the wheels fall off?

Sure, but you can totally cure all of these ills with a combination of coffee enemas and oil pulling. :drinker:

Haven't had soda in over 3 years and I don't miss it at all. I buy some very carbonated water and squeeze half a lemon in it when I want my old carbonation fix. Does the trick and replaces soda for me. I like the sourness, but if I didn't I'd either squeeze orange in it or sweeten it with agave.

Diet soda is absolutely toxic for your body. This is an incomplete list of the health issues associated with soda consumption:

Obesity
Diabetes
Heart disease
Liver damage
Insomnia
High Blood Pressure
Osteoporosis
Various cancers

said no scientific evidence ever.*


*obviously someone jacked full of caffeine isn't going to sleep. But that's hardly insomnia.

Here is a study regarding agressive prostate cancer. It has been published in a medical journal, so the truth is starting to come out.

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/soda-day-raises-man-risk-prostate-cancer-article-1.1208695

"Among the men who drank a lot of soft drinks or other drinks with added sugar, we saw an increased risk of prostate cancer of around 40 percent,"

I read the article, but it doesn't seem to mention diet soda, or have much bearing on soda at all if it's including "other drinks with added sugar."

I am trying to find the news cast where a local Dr from Washington University came on our local news and said it was more specific to those that drink Diet soda and there is an increased risk of women and Osteoporosis and strokes from having just one diet soda per day

What about:

QUOTE (Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis)

"When study participants drank sucralose, their blood sugar peaked at a higher level than when they drank only water before consuming glucose," Pepino explained. "Insulin levels also rose about 20 percent higher. So the artificial sweetener was related to an enhanced blood insulin and glucose response."

UNQUOTE ( http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130530/Popular-artificial-sweetener-can-modify-how-the-body-handles-sugar-find-researchers.aspx )

This is where they say drinking Diet soda and other artificially sweetened drinks contribute to obesity because it gives the hunger response.

Diet soda is absolutely toxic for your body. This is an incomplete list of the health issues associated with soda consumption:

Obesity
Diabetes
Heart disease
Liver damage
Insomnia
High Blood Pressure
Osteoporosis
Various cancers

said no scientific evidence ever.*


*obviously someone jacked full of caffeine isn't going to sleep. But that's hardly insomnia.

Here is a study regarding agressive prostate cancer. It has been published in a medical journal, so the truth is starting to come out.

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/soda-day-raises-man-risk-prostate-cancer-article-1.1208695

"Among the men who drank a lot of soft drinks or other drinks with added sugar, we saw an increased risk of prostate cancer of around 40 percent,"

I read the article, but it doesn't seem to mention diet soda, or have much bearing on soda at all if it's including "other drinks with added sugar."

I am trying to find the news cast where a local Dr from Washington University came on our local news and said it was more specific to those that drink Diet soda and there is an increased risk of women and Osteoporosis and strokes from having just one diet soda per day

There's s few good studies about bone densities in teen girls but most are saying its the lack of calcium in the American diet since no one drinks milk anymore

People will want to believe what they want to believe, either one way or another. No matter what people stand on this issue. No amount of evidence is going to convince people otherwise. Such is addiction defined by webster:persistent compulsive use of a substance known by the user to be harmful

All I know is from personal experience, I felt better after quitting Coke Zero (aspartame)

And just so happen one person is in the fitness industry doesn't mean they know any better. Now if you are a chemist and a doctor maybe it could appear to have more validity to the argument.

In other news, they make Sunkist 10 and 7UP 10 now, and they are both spectacular.