The latest, and largest, study to raise concern over diet drinks, published this month in JAMA Internal Medicine, suggests that regularly consuming them may be more dangerous to your health than drinking sugar-laden soft drinks.It’s well-documented that an excess intake of sugar-sweetened beverages is unhealthy.
Participants, enrolled between 1992 and 2000, were free of diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer at the onset. Each provided data on their diets, including soft-drink consumption, and other lifestyle factors. Drinking two or more glasses of diet drinks a day was tied to a 26 per cent greater risk of early death. Consuming two glasses of sugary drinks each day heightened the risk by 8 per cent.
Experimental evidence conducted in animals and humans has shown that artificial sweeteners disrupt the composition of gut microbes in a direction that could lead to obesity, glucose intolerance, diabetes and, ultimately, cardiovascular disease. High soft-drink consumption may be a marker for an overall unhealthy diet. People may choose a diet drink, for example, to rationalize the extra calories in an unhealthy meal.
Ya think?
'...cannot prove cause and effect. It’s possible the observed relationship is because of something else.' Great study.
No 💩Sherlock.
Your first clue: they taste terrible.
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