No More Diet Soda For Me! It's Lethal!

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I swear!

My cute shtick about drinking Diet Coke every day is no longer terribly amusing.

A new study says that people--and journalists--who do that have a 61% higher chance of a "vascular event."

I simply adore events, mind you, and in fact I voraciously cover them for a living, but a vascular event sounds a little icky, the kind of thing I'd probably rather not be on the guest list for. (And there's no gift bag!)

The reality is that guzzling this supposedly slimming beverage puts you at a way higher risk for strokes and heart attacks, and I'm at high risk enough!

Looks like the main way diet sodas make you thin is when you end up on a hospital bed.

They're 'death in a tin can' even more than an airplane crash would be!

Back to orange juice, kids.

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LoraAroy
LoraAroy

A new study says that people who taking soda is bad for health as well as it makes very bad health. In short, diet sodas make you thin and there are no single benefits of it. printed folders

Drink Water
Drink Water

Reality is in that twisted Diet coke can. It's poison. It's killing the unborn, raining tumors and seizures on the population, destroying children, incapacitating workers, mimicking MS, erasing memory and blinding. Inexorably Diet Coke visits a plague of 92 symptoms listed by our FDA on a secret report they'll never show which names diet soda as the first source of aspartame disease. And yes, Death was one of the 92.

Diet Coke is poison. And it's addictive, some victims drink several liters a day and keep it on their nightstands. If Coke changes the formula to remove aspartame the world will heal and the surge of hatred and vengeance by the disabled and bereaved shall certainly destroy Coca Cola.

The poison in Diet Coke is aspartame. As a member of the National Soft Drink Association Coke opposed FDA approval of aspartame for beverages. their objections, running to several pages published in the Congressional Record of 5/7/85, said aspartame is uniquely and inherently unstable and breaks down in the can. It decomposes into formaldehyde, methyl alcohol, formic acid, diketopiperazine and other toxins. In a study on 7 monkeys 5 had grand mal seizures and one died, a casualty rate of 86%.

burning_plastic
burning_plastic

Grapefruit juice, cranberry juice, water, even coffee would be so much better for you. Orange juice too, of course but it's a little too sweet for me. But besides whatever events they are talking about it also robs your body of nutrients and causes some weird issues with digestion that will stop you absorbing nutrients.Here's a yahoo answers about it.http://health.yahoo.net/expert...But google if you don't trust that. The studies have been around for years.

Drew(Sydney)
Drew(Sydney)

Oh please if the worst thing your drinking is Diet Soft Drinks....you doing pretty well

Im such a Diet Coke FREAK !!!!!!!! MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Musto
Musto

I do eat lots of fresh fruits and vegetables but I think I should cut down on the chemicals.

Jeepguy
Jeepguy

Don't worry...you'll still get plenty of chemicals from the fresh produce you eat due to the pesticides, commercial fertilizers, and growth hormones used to produce them. But we're all gonna die anyway, so what the h*ll. :)

Playthebanjo
Playthebanjo

John LambersonDiet Soda?Are we looking at other contributing factors from the diet or just association with diet sodas? If it is soda consumption alone, then we are missing a big part of the story. The headline sells papers but could be considered as part of the reason why so many people are misinformed and confused when it comes to nutrition advice. Why are we not stressing the importance of eating more fresh fruits and vegetables, reducing sodium intake and preparing more foods from home? C'mon Man! We must do better than this!

# 2 of 4February 10, 2011 12:16 (EST)

Christopher Kellyother correlatesDid they control for other factors that were likely correlated with soda drinking -- i.e. poor dietary habits, sedentary lifestyle, etc? People who are more proactive about their health probably avoid soda altogether and have better vascular outcomes, but that doesn't prove that diet soda has any adverse effects.

# 3 of 4February 10, 2011 12:44 (EST)

Robert KramerDaily quaffing of diet soda heightens vascular-event risk in cohort studyWere the researchers able to control the food/lifestyle variables in the groups? Diet soda could be a surrogate for a poor diet...and sedentary lifestyle. It is common to see overweight people loading their trays with poor food choices accompanied by a diet soda.

# 4 of 4February 10, 2011 01:43 (EST)

Paul HopkinsRemember reverse causation!!There are other observational studies (ARIC, even MESA I believe, etc.) that link diet soda use to worse outcomes (such as greater increases in weight, greater risk of new onset diabetes and metabolic syndrome. However, few if any of these larger studies asked WHY people were drinking diet soda. In other studies it becomes clear that people who drink diet soda are more often overweight, have had health concerns because of their, have difficulty losing weight, etc. In one study, kids who drank diet soda tended to gain more weight. They asked about parental concerns about the child's health and all the association with diet soda disappeared when "parental concern about weight" was entered. Thus, the kids drinking diet soda had good reason to be on diet soda because they were having a difficult time controlling their weight (and diet soda drinking girls outnumbered boys 2 to 1, suggesting the girls were more health conscious - not because the diet soda caused them to gain more weight). In randomized trials of diet soda versus sugared soda, the sugared soda clearly promoted greater weight gain. Epidemiologists need to collect appropriate data that could catch such reverse causation (or indication bias) before assuming there is a direct causal relationship.

Alex Edwards
Alex Edwards

diet soda, doctors are now seeing young people engaged in sports break their femur – also known as the thigh bone and the strongest bone in the human body – and some are questioning if the phosphorus in soda pop has weakened the bones more than anyone expected. Phosphoric acid gives that tangy aftertaste. www.1wallmart.com Ever used Naval Jelly for removing rust? That's phosphoric acid at work. there is some research suggesting cola consumption increases the amount of calcium measured in urine, meaning cola triggers calcium leaching out of bone. the health benefits of diet soda is inconclusive researcher said

Portal
Portal

Just drink it in moderation. Don't have such a freakout. Everything gives you cancer anyway.

Wings
Wings

You couldn't tell from the metallic, chemical taste that it was death???

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