Diet soft drinks fatten and cause more strokes and heart attacks....
Today's Post: Tuesday, 3-1-2011
Millions of people drink diet soft drinks instead of regular soft drinks in an attempt to avoid the fattening effects of the high fructose corn syrup in the regular soft drinks.
Some even do so to avoid the health harms from the high fructose corn syrup in the regular soft drinks.
But the results show that diet soft drinks fail at both of these things.
1. For at least 95% of the people who drink them, they are about as fat as the people who drink the same amount of regular soft drinks.
There are 3 reasons for this.
Diet soft drinks and sugar free sweeteners cause your body to expect a sugar fix with the result that your body craves sugar and sugar foods to such an extent that people take in as much sugar daily as they would have drinking regular soft drinks. Simply put diet soft drinks act as an appetite increasing drug. And, this is rooted in the biology of your body since even lab rats have been found to have this effect.
Second, drinking diet soft drinks makes eating fast food and similar food seem normal. Those foods are high in sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and refined grains.
Third, in the same way, diet soft drinks are part of the lifestyle of people who do not eat several servings of vegetables and real fruit each day.
Each of these things tend to cause people to be fat. But the drug-like boost in sugar craving even tends to fatten people who eat well otherwise.
2. More recently in the news, a study reported on Feb 10th of this year found that people who drank diet soft drinks daily experienced a 61 % higher risk of stroke and heart attack than people who drank none.
That’s a very large effect!
Of course the factors we just discussed contribute to this effect. They each tend to cause high triglycerides which tend to cause heart disease and which now have separately been linked to increased stroke risk.
But Yahoo Contributor Network’s Linda Ann Nickerson did a story onFriday, Feb 11, 2011 – last month -- which suggests that the aspartame commonly used in diet soft drinks during the study may also have caused part of the harm.
If that’s true, quite a few other things besides diet soft drinks may be wise to avoid.
Here’s her list from her article:
“Besides diet sodas, what other foods contain aspartame?
Aspartame (containing aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol) may be found in thousands of low-calorie beverages and food items. Items frequently containing the artificial sweetener may include breath mints, diet ice creams, diet jams and jellies, diet soft drinks, flavored waters, low-calorie juices, powdered juices, powdered sweeteners, snack bars, sugar-free candies, sugar-free chewing gums, sugar-free gelatin, sugar-free medications and more.
On food product labels, Aspartame may be identified as Equal, NutraSweet or Spoonful. Some products may simply list "artificial sweetener" as an ingredient.
This artificial sweetening agent, used in the vast majority of diet soft drinks, was first approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1974.”
She also notes that in some people aspartame has been linked to: “Alzheimer's, birth defects, brain tumors, chronic fatigue syndrome, diabetes, fibromyalgia, lymphoma, mental retardation, migraine headaches, Parkinson 's disease and other ailments.”
Later in her article she adds:
“attention deficit disorder (ADD), epilepsy, and multiple sclerosis.”
She also reports that people who have these things report getting worse after ingesting something with aspartame.
Also note that Sucralose another artificial sweetener contains chlorine which in other compounds produces life threatening and health harming effects.
But even if these other health effects of artificial sweeteners turn out to be incorrect or quite rare, they all act as drug-like boosters of sugar craving.
So, the conclusion is clear.
If you want to get or stay slim or if you want to protect your health, never drink diet soft drinks. And, avoid artificial sweeteners otherwise!
Drink water, tea, coffee, green tea, or even water that’s been carbonated only instead. Even some real fruit juice is OK. And real vegetable juice actually helps people lose weight when they drink it daily!
And, if you want a sweet treat, eat something with real sugar. Just stick with once or twice a month (or a week if you also exercise and aren’t fat.) But avoid doing it two or three times a day!
Today's Post: Tuesday, 3-1-2011
Millions of people drink diet soft drinks instead of regular soft drinks in an attempt to avoid the fattening effects of the high fructose corn syrup in the regular soft drinks.
Some even do so to avoid the health harms from the high fructose corn syrup in the regular soft drinks.
But the results show that diet soft drinks fail at both of these things.
1. For at least 95% of the people who drink them, they are about as fat as the people who drink the same amount of regular soft drinks.
There are 3 reasons for this.
Diet soft drinks and sugar free sweeteners cause your body to expect a sugar fix with the result that your body craves sugar and sugar foods to such an extent that people take in as much sugar daily as they would have drinking regular soft drinks. Simply put diet soft drinks act as an appetite increasing drug. And, this is rooted in the biology of your body since even lab rats have been found to have this effect.
Second, drinking diet soft drinks makes eating fast food and similar food seem normal. Those foods are high in sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and refined grains.
Third, in the same way, diet soft drinks are part of the lifestyle of people who do not eat several servings of vegetables and real fruit each day.
Each of these things tend to cause people to be fat. But the drug-like boost in sugar craving even tends to fatten people who eat well otherwise.
2. More recently in the news, a study reported on Feb 10th of this year found that people who drank diet soft drinks daily experienced a 61 % higher risk of stroke and heart attack than people who drank none.
That’s a very large effect!
Of course the factors we just discussed contribute to this effect. They each tend to cause high triglycerides which tend to cause heart disease and which now have separately been linked to increased stroke risk.
But Yahoo Contributor Network’s Linda Ann Nickerson did a story onFriday, Feb 11, 2011 – last month -- which suggests that the aspartame commonly used in diet soft drinks during the study may also have caused part of the harm.
If that’s true, quite a few other things besides diet soft drinks may be wise to avoid.
Here’s her list from her article:
“Besides diet sodas, what other foods contain aspartame?
Aspartame (containing aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol) may be found in thousands of low-calorie beverages and food items. Items frequently containing the artificial sweetener may include breath mints, diet ice creams, diet jams and jellies, diet soft drinks, flavored waters, low-calorie juices, powdered juices, powdered sweeteners, snack bars, sugar-free candies, sugar-free chewing gums, sugar-free gelatin, sugar-free medications and more.
On food product labels, Aspartame may be identified as Equal, NutraSweet or Spoonful. Some products may simply list "artificial sweetener" as an ingredient.
This artificial sweetening agent, used in the vast majority of diet soft drinks, was first approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1974.”
She also notes that in some people aspartame has been linked to: “Alzheimer's, birth defects, brain tumors, chronic fatigue syndrome, diabetes, fibromyalgia, lymphoma, mental retardation, migraine headaches, Parkinson 's disease and other ailments.”
Later in her article she adds:
“attention deficit disorder (ADD), epilepsy, and multiple sclerosis.”
She also reports that people who have these things report getting worse after ingesting something with aspartame.
Also note that Sucralose another artificial sweetener contains chlorine which in other compounds produces life threatening and health harming effects.
But even if these other health effects of artificial sweeteners turn out to be incorrect or quite rare, they all act as drug-like boosters of sugar craving.
So, the conclusion is clear.
If you want to get or stay slim or if you want to protect your health, never drink diet soft drinks. And, avoid artificial sweeteners otherwise!
Drink water, tea, coffee, green tea, or even water that’s been carbonated only instead. Even some real fruit juice is OK. And real vegetable juice actually helps people lose weight when they drink it daily!
And, if you want a sweet treat, eat something with real sugar. Just stick with once or twice a month (or a week if you also exercise and aren’t fat.) But avoid doing it two or three times a day!
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posted by David at 2:02 PM
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Interesting analysis. Here's a link to the original article, quoted heavily in this post.
MEDICAL RESEARCH TIES DIET SODA TO INCREASED STROKE AND HEART ATTACK RISKS
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