It doesn’t matter if it’s sugary or diet: New study links all soda to an early death

Washington Post ^ | Sep. 4, 2019 | Laura Reiley

[ConservativeStatement]

Hold up, diet soda drinkers. Regular consumption of soft drinks — both sugar-sweetened and artificially sweetened — was associated with a greater risk of all causes of death, according to research published this week in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Participants who drank two or more glasses of soft drinks per day had a higher risk of mortality than those who consumed less than one glass per month.

[RDasher]

Whenever you see the phrase “new study shows”, be skeptical of any claims made, very skeptical.

[aquila48]

“Being cheap all these years has saved me a lot of money (and now it seems my health) /s”

You can take off the /s. I think that’s a better guide to longevity than any diet. Be frugal and live long!

[Bonemaker]

Hope that doesn't apply to seltzer!😎

[Bonemaker]

“Whenever you see the phrase “new study shows”, be skeptical of any claims made, very skeptical.”

Real “studies” have shown that studies are full of shit.

[Alas Babylon!]

EXCUSE ME!

By drinking all these diet cokes I am reducing my carbon footprint and saving Motha Erf from reckless, bigoted white supremacist oil executives!!!

[Go Gordon]

Participants who drank two or more glasses of soft drinks per day had a higher risk of mortality than those who consumed less than one glass per month.

I thought everybody's risk of mortality was 100%. We're all going to die.

[Go Gordon]

Regular consumption of soft drinks — both sugar-sweetened and artificially sweetened — was associated with a greater risk of all causes of death

So drinking soda will increase lightning strike deaths, homicides, IED roadside deaths abroad, suicides, automobile deaths and accidental hunting deaths. Who knew?

[dfwgator]

A person who drinks soda, is likely to be making a lot of other poor health choices.

[Go Gordon]

Do you remember past studies that concluded that drinking diet soda caused obesity? Their study concluded that almost all obese people drank diet soda, ergo, drinking diet soda causes obesity. It was nuts.

[dfwgator]

100% of people who drank water instead of soda died.

They both contain high doses of Dihydrogen Monoxide.

[seawolf101]

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Who drinks diet soda from a glass? It comes in cans for a reason!

If you are at a restaurant or flying they bring you the soda in a glass. So the study really means that people who go out to eat twice a day and travel by air a great deal are at a higher risk of death.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Drinking carbonated water may be the problem.

Among the multitude of microorganisms in the body is an odd one found in many people, called an “Archaea”. While they look like bacteria, they are more closely related to people than they are bacteria, so much so that they form their own *Domain* of life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaea

For a time they were called “extremophobes”, because they were found in very inhospitable places, like near deep ocean volcanic vents. However, one kind can live in the human digestive tract. But why does this matter?

Unlike bacteria, Archaea consume things that bacteria won’t, like gases, and importantly, carbon dioxide.

Bacteria often *produce* carbon dioxide as part of their digestive process. It limits their growth, as it is toxic to them. But because Archaea can consume it, it allows bacteria to continue to digest food, providing more nutrition to the body.

And this may be how soda can hurt us. Its carbonated water is pure Archaea food. So we get more nutrition than we need, which leads to health problems.

[Tax-chick]

When I’ve been on a plane, they gave me soda in a plastic cup!

[OrangeHoof]

It was either soft drinks or booze. I think I chose well.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Is that worse or better then a glass?

[OrangeHoof]

New study finds everyone will die of something, sometime, anyway.

"We all die of sumpin'" - Dr. Jocelyn Elders, Clinton's Surgeon General.

[CIB-173RDABN]

Be frugal and live long!

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Well I am 73 so I guess I have had a long life ;)

[Paal Gulli]

71-year-old Croatian man has drunk nothing but Coca-Cola for 40 years to keep a promise to his mother never to touch alcohol again.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/croatia/4736376/Pensioner-drinks-nothing-but-Coke-for-40-years-in-promise-to-mother.html

[Tax-chick]

Probably worse. Plastic is made of chemicals, you know, and chemicals are bad.