"Paging Dr Pepper... paging Dr Pepper! We need your assistance immediately!"
Is there no end to non-scientific scare tactics? I suspect they're also suggesting carbonated drinks seem to cause "Global Warming"--- artificially sweetened or not.
Posted on 07/23/2007 8:22:02 PM PDT by melt
SAN FRANCISCO -- Adults who consume at least one soft drink a day are more likely to develop risk factors for heart disease than those who don't, even if the beverage is diet, according to a study published today in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Researchers studying about 3,500 middle-aged men and women as part of a larger, long-term heart study found an association between daily soft drink consumption and an increased risk of developing metabolic syndrome.
People with metabolic syndrome -- a combination of factors like high blood pressure and elevated triglycerides -- are more likely to suffer diabetes and heart disease.
"In this group of middle-aged adults, consumption of just one or more soft drinks per day seemed to increase the risk of developing metabolic syndrome by about 50 percent" whether the drink was artificially sweetened or not, said Dr. Ramachandran Vasan, senior author of the Framingham Heart Study and an associate professor at Boston University School of Medicine.
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"Paging Dr Pepper... paging Dr Pepper! We need your assistance immediately!"
Is there no end to non-scientific scare tactics? I suspect they're also suggesting carbonated drinks seem to cause "Global Warming"--- artificially sweetened or not.
Why, Oh why does it have to taste so good?
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