Posted on 09/14/2022 8:47:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
New study raises concerns about diet sodas
Wednesday, a new study was published in the BMJ:
Artificial sweeteners and risk of cardiovascular diseases: results from the prospective NutriNet-Sante cohort
The researchers found a potential link between the consumption of artificial sweeteners and heart disease.
The study involved over 100,000 adults in France.
The researchers concluded that "the findings from this large scale prospective cohort study suggest a potential direct association between higher artificial sweetener consumption (especially aspartame, acesulfame potassium, and sucralose) and increased cardiovascular disease risk. Artificial sweeteners are present in thousands of food and beverage brands worldwide, however they remain a controversial topic and are currently being re-evaluated by the European Food Safety Authority, the World Health Organization, and other health agencies."
According to the article, the objective of the study was to research "the associations between artificial sweeteners from all dietary sources (beverages, but also table top sweeteners, dairy products, etc), overall and by molecule (aspartame, acesulfame potassium, and sucralose), and risk of cardiovascular diseases (overall, coronary heart disease, and cerebrovascular disease)."
According to the FDA:
Aspartame
Aspartame is approved for use in food as a nutritive sweetener. Aspartame brand names include Nutrasweet, Equal, and Sugar Twin. It does contain calories, but because it is about 200 times sweeter than table sugar, consumers are likely to use much less of it.
FDA approved aspartame in 1981 (46 FR 38283) for uses, under certain conditions, as a tabletop sweetener, in chewing gum, cold breakfast cereals, and dry bases for certain foods (i.e., beverages, instant coffee and tea, gelatins, puddings, and fillings, and dairy products and toppings). In 1983 (48 FR 31376), FDA approved the use of aspartame in carbonated beverages and carbonated beverage syrup bases, and in 1996, FDA approved it for use as a "general purpose sweetener." It is not heat stable and loses its sweetness when heated, so it typically isn't used in baked goods.
Aspartame is one of the most exhaustively studied substances in the human food supply, with more than 100 studies supporting its safety.
FDA scientists have reviewed scientific data regarding the safety of aspartame in food and concluded that it is safe for the general population under certain conditions. However, people with a rare hereditary disease known as phenylketonuria (PKU) have a difficult time metabolizing phenylalanine, a component of aspartame, and should control their intake of phenylalanine from all sources, including aspartame. Labels of aspartame-containing foods and beverages must include a statement that informs individuals with PKU that the product contains phenylalanine.
Acesulfame potassium (Ace-K)
Acesulfame potassium is approved for use in food as a non-nutritive sweetener. It is included in the ingredient list on the food label as acesulfame K, acesulfame potassium, or Ace-K. Acesulfame potassium is sold under the brand names Sunett and Sweet One. It is about 200 times sweeter than sugar and is often combined with other sweeteners.
FDA approved acesulfame potassium for use in specific food and beverage categories in 1988 (53 FR 28379), and in 2003 approved it as a general purpose sweetener and flavor enhancer in food, except in meat and poultry, under certain conditions of use. It is heat stable, meaning that it stays sweet even when used at high temperatures during baking, making it suitable as a sugar substitute in baked goods.
Acesulfame potassium is typically used in frozen desserts, candies, beverages, and baked goods. More than 90 studies support its safety.
Sucralose
Sucralose is approved for use in food as a non-nutritive sweetener. Sucralose is sold under the brand name Splenda. Sucralose is about 600 times sweeter than sugar.
FDA approved sucralose for use in 15 food categories in 1998 and for use as a general purpose sweetener for foods in 1999, under certain conditions of use. Sucralose is a general purpose sweetener that can be found in a variety of foods including baked goods, beverages, chewing gum, gelatins, and frozen dairy desserts. It is heat stable, meaning that it stays sweet even when used at high temperatures during baking, making it suitable as a sugar substitute in baked goods.
Sucralose has been extensively studied and more than 110 safety studies were reviewed by FDA in approving the use of sucralose as a general purpose sweetener for food.
New study raises concerns about diet sodas
Wednesday, a new study was published in the BMJ:
Artificial sweeteners and risk of cardiovascular diseases: results from the prospective NutriNet-Sante cohort
The researchers found a potential link between the consumption of artificial sweeteners and heart disease.
So you’re telling me I can drink chlorine and it’s healthy?
Yup, the clot shot didn’t do it.
Yer soda did!
Uh huh.
Case in point from 14 years ago...
Effects of aspartame on the blood coagulation system of the rabbit Humphries, Petro
nick, the timing of this story isn't a coinkydink.
And artifical sweeteners aren’t the reason Deep State is screwing with medical coding.
But the fact that Deep State is desperate enough to resort to BS like this ought to be scaring the crap out of people.
The numbers of vaxx related injuries and deaths must be horrific.
All of these authors of articles and papers fall somewhere along the intellectual or moral corruption spectra, and have their marching orders, even if the same were never actually spoken to them or written out and handed to them.
The Father of Lies is pulling a factory loom’s worth of strings on this issue.
It’s not just this... it’s not just that. It’s the cumulative effect in all our processed foods.
Being obese and drinking a gallon of diet soda with your big mac’s probably doesn’t help either.
Plain sugar does something similar going through several delicious candy phases followed by phases of caramel before turning to gross black tar and eventually something like charcoal.
The FOOD industry and the DRUG industry are in cahoots.
Ever hear of the FOOD and DRUG Administration.
Why do you think our food is killing everyone and the doctors are telling us to consume what they are pushing.
The food pyramid has been upside down for decades.
Processed sugar, by any name, nutrative or not. is bad for you in excess quantities.
Red meat and natural fats are healthy for you.
High fat, high protein diet is best for you.
Is there any bacon left?
Probably in that order. I only drink plain water when there is no coffee, beer or wine! I only drink unsweetened iced tea when I'm in a restaurant (I don't trust the tap water in restaurants).
I never drink soda pop, diet or not. I look at the ingredients and I say no thanks.
Part of it, as you say, is fat people are more likely to drink diet soda. But this study is even weaker. They tried to remove, via statistics, a bunch of factors (what they ate, exercise, BMI, etc) and still came up with an almost invisible effect:
The difference in heart attacks, etc was 346 per 100,000 person years in higher consumers and 314 per 100,000 person years in non-consumers. A difference of just 32 negative events in 100,000 person years! So a thousand people living 100 years would see a difference of just 32 events...
Every time you apply a statistical filter to remove some factor - lack of exercise, for example - you create error. No one KNOWS the exact effect of lack of exercise, so no filter can remove it with perfect accuracy!
And after all the manipulation for a wide variety of factors, they came up with a difference of just 32 negative events in 100,000 person-years!
“So you consume a diet soda but then want a bigger piece of cake later in the day.”
NOT my experience. I use artificial sweeteners in coffee and yogurt, and I have nearly zero sugar consumption. Very low carbs overall - bordering on a carnivore diet.
Sometimes a sweetener is just a way of making something sweeter. Doesn’t make me grab some cake or cookies or ice cream later on...possibly because we don’t even HAVE those things in the house!
I worked with a guy who weighed 400 lbs and drank 6 diet cokes a day.
He’d better give up the diet coke. That stuff sounds unhealthy.
Anyone remember the Olestra fat substitute? My wifes friend ate a bag of Lays potato chips w/ olestra when they worked for at the pre-k center.
Needless to say she never made it to the latrine. Poor kids.
I believe it’s still used today.
Sugar processing is not a “natural” process, either. It is highly processed before it even gets into your baked goodies. They add tons of chemicals to it and put it through what is known as a “seeding” process before we get that beautiful, uniform, white sugar. Raw sugar is dark brown, kind of ugly, and used to be transported in conical shapes that you had to chip off to get the amount of sugar you needed. It was also much healthier for the body and included minerals, electrolytes and enzymes that the body could actually process. In South America, where real raw sugar is still commonplace, they mix it with “de lime an de coconut” as a recovery drink for athletes. Even “raw” sugar we can get at our local grocery (also called turbinado sugar) is not raw and has been processed. They just left some of the molasses in for color.
My Grandmother(from dads side)also a sweets-addict, lived into her 90's.
Every body is different.
All these chemicals introduced to foods(post WWII gen.)may be OK on their own, mixed with other chemicals?...not so much.
90's will be a rarity, realized by oligarchs and their minions only.
The rest of us(post WWII gen)have a service date, not to exceed -X-.
Go into your local grocery store...take out the junk, they'd have almost nothing to sell. Even foods traditionally nutritious...are now chemically-enhanced garbage.
All part of a sinister plan to reduce population?
...or just old-fashioned greed(shoot this cow/pig with this/get more meat...spray this vegetable with that...more produce).
...you be the judge.
Well, it's not only me telling you. :^)
Is chlorinated water safe to drink? Yes. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) limits the amount of chlorine in drinking water to levels that are safe for human consumption. The levels of chlorine used for drinking water disinfection are unlikely to cause long-term health effects.
My Publix has been selling "Zevia Zero Calorie Soda, Cola" for a while now.
But as for Major corporations:
Coca-Cola is using the stevia-derived sweetener Truvia in two of its Odwalla juice drinks and in the new Sprite Green. PepsiCo added its version of stevia to Sobe Lifewater drinks and has launched a new Tropicana orange juice, Trop50, containing 50 percent less sugar and calories.Apr 17, 2009This was from an NBC news article.
Not even close. I am well controlled with just the usual medications and have never had a diabetic event. Only a handfull of times I have been able to tell that I needed to eat something. I'll prick my finger and sure enough it was low so I eat. I go for long periods without even tested my blood sugar level here at home. My Doctor doesn't like me doing that but it was always within the recommended levels. I just looked, and the last time I tested was in May. I'll do that tomorrow since you reminded me.
It drives me crazy to hear of diabetics going to the hospital with A1C readings up to the moon because they still eat the same way that brought on the diabetes. Cut out the candy, cake and ice cream, even on Halloween and your children's birthdays.
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