Posted on 03/30/2014 1:04:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Women who drink the most diet sodas may also be more likely to develop heart disease and even to die, according to a new study published Saturday.
Researchers found women who drank two or more diet drinks a day were 30 percent more likely to have a heart attack or other cardiovascular "event," and 50 percent more likely to die, than women who rarely touch such drinks.
The findings, being presented at a meeting of the American College of Cardiology, don't suggest that the drinks themselves are killers. But women who toss back too many diet sodas may be trying to make up for unhealthy habits, experts say.
"Our study suggests an association between higher diet drink consumption and mortality," said Dr. Ankur Vyas, a cardiovascular disease expert at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinic, who led the study....
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He who isn’t busy being born is busy dying..... Bob Dylan
Amen!
There has never been a case in history that any one who has heart problems is not doing something wrong.
I cannot stand the taste of diet sodas, definitely has to be an acquired tolerance. So, you would see me picking regular soda. But, I rarely drink a full regular soda. Takes me about a week to 10 days to drink a soda.
Drink about a gallon of water a day, though.
I started drinking them to prevent tooth decay from sugary drinks, and it did pretty much work. I can't be the only one. Otherwise I agree with all you said.
I have known from day one that all those artificial sweeteners were poison.
If you get your water from a public water supply system, you should have a really good idea what’s in it. The federal Safe Drinking Water Act requires water suppliers to test for hundreds of different contaminants regularly and to issue annual Consumer Confidence Reports to their customers
Uh, maybe this has to do with the fact that such woman are fat as a house, may have cardiac issues already, and engage in dangerous “binge” diets?
Correlation is not causation.
I recently lost 50+ lbs and I started drinking Diet Mnt Dew about that time. (oh noes) However, I also cut out fast food and lowered my caloric intake. ;-)
Work hard. Play hard. Eat good. What’s wrong with that?
If you drink water for enough years you will die too.
Guy needs a refresher course in causation versus correlation.
Death and taxes. The only two certainties in life.
Well...I’m not fat. I drink a lot of water, but I also enjoy my diet Mt. Dew. Better that than a ton of HFCS, I guess.
All of the people born before Coke was invented are dead.
That's not proof that drinking regular Coke helps prevent death, but it seems to help.
Wrong. People are born with defects,tiny babies undergoing maybe multiple heart surgeries and congenital anomalies that cause premature death. I suppose you also believe only smokers die from lung cancer. Government propaganda.
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