[neverdem]

Soft Drink Consumption and Risk of Developing Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and the Metabolic Syndrome in Middle-Aged Adults in the Community

[dighton]

Soda is one thing, but when they go after sushi, sashimi, and sake, this means war.

[taxcontrol]

Never understood why some folks would want to eat fish bait.

[americanophile]

I don’t know about heart disease, but I’ve recently quit diet soda, and lost about 10 pounds. I don’t know why, it’s diet! Perhaps its less sodium, so less water weight, but I feel alot better without it.

[kingu]

The thought police are out in force again. It’s all the fault of whatever crappy ‘science’ they can come up with.

[JennysCool]

Some level of government needs more funding and is attempting to get it by alarming the sheeple. Gee whiz.

[garyhope]

I could live without sushi (but not Susie), but I sure would miss my Vietnamese spring rolls and pho.

I think a bowl of pho is one of the best meals around. Cheap, delicious and pretty healthy.

[LibFreeOrDie]

If no one ever ate anything, we’d all be safe and live forever...

[SIDENET]

Everything is bad for you.

Aw, hell. I'm just gonna start smoking again.

[antiunion person]

It doesn’t matter what you eat, drink, think, do or don’t do, no matter what it is, there is someone out with too much time on their hands and a government grant saying you will suffer and die from something. Water is dangerous to a person too. If you drink too much water, you can die. A great rule of thumb, as least for me, is moderation. You can have almost anything and it won’t hurt you if you use it in moderation. I personally don’t give a damn what a scientist says, what a shrink says and especially what a know it all politician has to say. I will do what I want as long as it doesn’t affect anyone around me or my family. In other words, the thought police can just kiss my ass.

[durasell]

The soda thing is interesting. I believe it shows the market for soda has not only declined, but is now made up of a larger percentage of those who don’t watch what they eat. It isn’t the soda, it’s soda’s consumers.

[jwh_Denver]

“cut down on their intake of even cooked fish with high levels of mercury”

..........

[expatguy]

haha... blatant example of Japanaphobia

just wait till Mr. Yamamoto with the CAJR (Council For American Japanese Relations) finds out about this hateful bigotry.

[GoldCountryRedneck]

"Well, we're all gonna' die of somethin'..." - J. "teach 'em mastrubation" Elders (Clinton Surgeon General)

[Cacique]

I am waiting for the study that shows that food can lead to obesity and that intaking any proteins or carbohydrates is injurious to health. I think starvation can solve a lot of health and social problems and may even aid in the control of excesive population./s

[angkor]

The first study discusses mercury, not pathogens, so why single out sushi?

The second says that some unhealthy people drink soda. Not that soda causes ill health.

How stupid do you have to be to become a reporter?

[Nomad577]

I thought it was commonly known for at least ten years that diet sodas were really bad for you, mostly because of the Aspartame and other fake chemical sweeteners. They taste awful anyway, if you want a soda drink regular and if you’re on a diet drink water or ice tea. The same with the sushi, it’s been known and recommended forever that pregnant women avoid certain fish that may be high in mercury, its not necessarily sushi but certain fish.

I think they recycle these same studies every so often and act like they’ve made some big new discovery.

[Nathan Zachary]

"It is scientifically implausible to suggest that diet soft drinks — a beverage that is 99 percent water — cause weight gain or elevated blood pressure."

Maybe it's that 2 cups of sugar per 2 Liter jug of regular pop that has something to do with it, and all that artificial sweetener in diet pop.
Then there is the simple observation that people who guzzle a gallon or more of pop every day tend to be obese.

What ever it is, the Marxist "regulate everything you do" police will set you straight. Like guns, grocery stores should provide the names of people who buy more than 10 large jugs of pop a week and put them on a list- for public safety..../s

[rmlew]

Most pregnant women I have known vomit around sushi!
I think that morning sickness is a defense mechanism for the fetus.
However, nanny Bloomberg should doo somehting useful like lowering taxes, REDUCING REGULATIONS, and ensuring that all students graduate with diplomas worht the paper they are recycled on!

[neverdem]

Theodore Dalrymple: Thanks for the Immunity

Smoking Ban Is Proposed in Drug Centers

FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.

[Cobra64]