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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: SteelePegasus on July 24, 2007, 05:39:57 AM
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Another useless study and waste of good money..at the end it is inconclusive.
"It may have zero calories, zero fat and zero carbs but that diet soda you’re sipping can still be bad for you.
Drinking more than one soft drink daily, whether regular or diet, may increase risk factors for heart disease, according to the latest research from the Framingham Heart Study.
“In studies such as Framingham, we show guilt by association, we cannot state for a fact that soda is always the culprit,” said Dr. Ramachandran Vasan, senior author of the Framingham Heart Study and professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. “What really struck us was that it didn’t matter whether it was diet or regular soda that the participants consumed, the association with increased risk was present.”
The link between soft drinks and the risk factors is not new - previous studies examined regular soft drinks - but this latest study shows artificially sweetened diet sodas could also be harmful.
The Framingham study included nearly 9,000 person observations made in middle-aged people.
Researchers have three theories as to why soda consumption affected participants. A person who consumes a lot of liquid at one meal may go on to eat more at the next meal. The sweetness of soda, both regular and diet, may also cause a person to develop a preference for sweeter, higher calorie food.
Finally, the brown color of colas is obtained from caramel, linked to inflammation and insulin resistance in lab animals"
origianl link: http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=1013049
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yet again nobody can be held liable here.
because its a fucking bitch to link any one thing to heart disease. I suspect the majority of people which participated in this (controlled?) study were living typically unhealthy lives anyway, hence their switch to diet sodas for 'compensation' of calories.
shitty, inconclusive study, like you said SteelePegasus.
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i just had a mountain dew with breakfast.
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seems like in the midwest, most people carrying around soda all day are also carrying a pack of
smokes...
i have always said that the white trash breakfast is a 20oz Mt Dew and a pack of smokes ;D
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Diet soda rocks.