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Diet Soda Linked to Depression in NIH Study
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| January 9, 2013
| Jason Koebler
Posted on 01/10/2013 6:17:03 PM PST by null and void
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I know from personal experience that Aspertame cause depression.
Maybe not for everyone, but certainly for me.
To: null and void
Neurotoxins do tend to bum a body out.
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posted on
01/10/2013 6:23:00 PM PST
by
Salamander
(Nothing says 'Welcome to my home!' like snakes.)
To: null and void
The Mountain Dew / methamphetamine association is a terrible thing.
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posted on
01/10/2013 6:27:51 PM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: Salamander
Them Moxie drinkers are a pretty paranoid bunch too.
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posted on
01/10/2013 6:30:33 PM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: billorites
Where in the world did you get that picture?
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posted on
01/10/2013 6:30:46 PM PST
by
OldPossum
To: null and void
I know from personal experience that Aspertame cause depression. If so, then bananas also cause depression. But by all means, don't ever eat grilled chicken with a glass of red wine, apple juice, tomato juice, or orange juice. You could become suicidal.
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posted on
01/10/2013 6:31:20 PM PST
by
Mase
(Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
To: billorites
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posted on
01/10/2013 6:34:04 PM PST
by
EEGator
To: null and void
Laughing on the outside...
Crying on the inside.
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posted on
01/10/2013 6:34:40 PM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: billorites
It should say “OR ELSE!” at the bottom.
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posted on
01/10/2013 6:34:57 PM PST
by
Salamander
(Nothing says 'Welcome to my home!' like snakes.)
To: billorites
With delusions of omniscience.
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posted on
01/10/2013 6:36:45 PM PST
by
Salamander
(Nothing says 'Welcome to my home!' like snakes.)
To: null and void
"Our research suggests that cutting out or down on sweetened diet drinks or replacing them with unsweetened coffee may naturally help lower your depression risk," Honglei Chen, who led the study, said in a statement.
It doesn't suggest a cause and effect at all. It could be that depressed people tend to drink more diet sodas because they are depressed about being overweight.
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posted on
01/10/2013 6:40:54 PM PST
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: Kirkwood; null and void
It doesn't suggest a cause and effect at all. It could be that depressed people tend to drink more diet sodas because they are depressed about being overweight. Or, depression leads to overeating, overeating leads to excess weight, excess weight leads to dieting and thus consumption of diet sodas.
What sort of person drinks black coffee?
To: Mase; Mr. K
By all means ignore other peoples personal experience.
If there are hundreds of such stories, and they are not blessed by an “actual scientist”, then they are not true, right?
(Pinging the only “actual scientist” I know for his 2¢ worth)
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posted on
01/10/2013 6:49:44 PM PST
by
null and void
(Chicago police chief: WE'LL SHOOT LICENSED CIVILIANS WITH GUNS)
To: Kirkwood
It doesn't suggest a cause and effect at all. It could be that depressed people tend to drink more diet sodas because they are depressed about being overweight.Exactly. Drinking the diet soda keeps one from eating a sweet which one is NOT supposed to eat if one is overweight. One could be very depressed from being overweight to start with.
To: null and void
Interesting, but I was being treated with MAOI long before aspartame came on the scene. Maybe switch to splenda for a while just to see what other psychological maladies it can cause lol.
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posted on
01/10/2013 6:52:10 PM PST
by
steve86
(Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
To: thecodont
"What sort of person drinks black coffee?"
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posted on
01/10/2013 6:52:33 PM PST
by
EEGator
To: thecodont
Or, depression leads to overeating, overeating leads to excess weight, excess weight leads to dieting and thus consumption of diet sodas.
What sort of person drinks black coffee? Well, me, for one. Three or four mugs every morning. And soda, diet or otherwise? Maybe four cans a year.
I'm the least-depressed person imaginable, but I don't attribute that to coffee.
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posted on
01/10/2013 6:53:04 PM PST
by
southernnorthcarolina
("Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own." -- Aesop)
To: Kirkwood; Mase
It doesn't suggest a cause and effect at all. It could be that depressed people tend to drink more diet sodas because they are depressed about being overweight. True. Correlation is not causation.
Still, it's easy enough for someone who is depressed to switch to coffee, or even horrors!, water and see if it helps.
I've learned through bitter experience that consuming aspartame is invariably followed by worsening depression.
Some people go bananas when they hear this, some even go grilled chicken with red whine...
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01/10/2013 6:57:09 PM PST
by
null and void
(Chicago police chief: WE'LL SHOOT LICENSED CIVILIANS WITH GUNS)
To: EEGator
thank you...
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01/10/2013 6:58:02 PM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: thecodont
Doesn’t say black coffee, just unsweetened. Though I don’t see that there research is that specific. If it were, would unsweetened coffee drinkers have got a larger boost still?
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