Posted on 11/18/2021 4:36:54 PM PST by nickcarraway
The liquid causing the most damage to your liver may not actually be booze, according to a new study. It’s soda.
In the new paper (a collaboration between multiple Massachusetts universities), entitled “Sugar-Sweetened Beverage, Diet Soda, and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Over 6 Years: The Framingham Heart Study,” researchers looked at the average sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) or diet soda consumption of participants from the long-running Framingham Heart Study, which began in 1948. The new research examined 1,636 descendants of the original study, both offspring and third generation.
As the health site Eat This Not That! explains, researchers then weighed these soda self-reports against the incidence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, a condition that affects one in four Americans. As the Mayo Clinic notes, “Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is an umbrella term for a range of liver conditions affecting people who drink little to no alcohol. As the name implies, the main characteristic of NAFLD is too much fat stored in liver cells.” Fatigue and pain are common symptoms, but advanced scarring (cirrhosis) and liver failure are also possibilities.
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I’d actually want to test that before consuming; the alcohol might gang up with the fake sweetener and leave you with a kidney stone like an asteroid.
The other way around works better.
Erythritol is not an artificial sweetener. It is made from corn alcohol and is the most used sweetener in keto recipes. One to one ratio with sugar. I am making a pecan pie and syrup I made from erythritol
Crappy reporting. doesn’t differentiate between sugar sweetened drinks and diet soda drinks. Typical of today’s “reporting.”
“Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter; sermons and soda water on the day after.” Thanks for reminding me of Lord Byron’s little gem.
Thunderbird!
Mint juleps or bourbon with ice tea.
Cranberry juice is a great mixer so is a quality lemonade.
I can understand sugar sweetened drinks resulting in Non-alcoholic fatty liver. especially high fructose sweetened drinks.
I’m not convinced diet soda is bad. There were studies in Texas several years ago that people drinking diet soda gained more weight than those drinking sugar sweetened soda.
But that doesn’t tell you what they were eating, or what their other habits were.
I drink diet soda and do intermittent fasting, skipping breakfast most days. And I try to limit carbs. And I’ve been losing weight. So if I’m losing weight overall, I’d expect that my liver is becoming less fat as well. And I seriously doubt diet soda is doing anything bad.
Only, I think, in that they do not contain sugars that promote weight gain.
What terrible writing. The people who drank soda made with sugar had better health than the people who drank diet soda—but the article warns against “sugary” drinks.
They must hand out Oppositional Defiant Disorder in journalism schools.
Im aware and still not eating it. It pisses me off that they stick it in keto and try to sneak it into everything else. I dont want any of the alcohols.
If it doesnt have stevia or monk fruit to sweeten it then I dont want it sweetened or Ill do without. I guess Im just funny that way.
Is phosphorus used to maintain carbonation in seltzer?
I was getting kidney stones every 18 months. I stopped drinking diet cola, and they stopped forming
One way to have an optimum potassium level is consuming a high potassium food that you like as much as you want. Some examples of foods are pummelo, boiled potatoes and oranges.
I wonder if doing that would let you avoid getting stones.
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