People may think diet sodas are a better alternative to regular soda but new research says they could cause heart disease in women.
Researchers at the University of Iowa say women who drink two or more diet sodas each day, may be more likely to develop heart disease. They say they are not health drinks. The study found diet sodas may help people avoid sugar, but they don’t help them lose weight.
Researchers say the women who drank the most diet sodas were also more likely to smoke, be overweight, have diabetes, and high blood pressure.
(KTVI)
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This is classic junk science as anyone who had Statistics 101 will notice.
Their “results” are probably because people who are overweight (and thus are likely to have diabetes and heart conditions) tend to drink diet soda. For the study to have any meaning, they would have to compare the results to people who were equally obsese and drank only water on the one hand, and soft drinks with sugar on the other. I suspect they would get the same results with water drinkiers, and worse outcomes with those who substituted sugar drinks. The factor to consider is obesity, not drinking diet soda.
Seltzer is the drink of choice and it’s what Yioddin have been drinking for years.
Studies like this come out multiple times a year and then they never stand up to scrutiny. Why do we keep pushing these junk science articles all the time. There has never been a “diet soda cancer/kills/bad health” study that has ever stood up to independent scrutiny which is why they rarely ever get past the university PR press release stage. Why media outlets like YWN keep falling for this junk, I’ll never know
so basically the study is worthless
The authors of the study pointed out that the study demonstrates an association, not causation. Obviously, diet sodas don’t cause smoking. It’s just that smokers are more likely to drink diet sodas, and smoking causes death. Other studies have raised the possibility that diet sodas contribute to weight gain through appetite stimulation and other factors, and obesity is also a cause of CV death.
bull science, its awesome!
i guess this really isnt happening bec we are all dead.
as far as #2 is concerned, its quite min ha’shomayim that you are poster #2. V’hamayvin yovin.
yaakov doe says:
March 31, 2014 at 5:19 pm
Seltzer is the drink of choice and it’s what Yioddin have been drinking for years
its a drink that people have been drinking for years it is not a yiddish drink
These studies against sugar substitutes and diet sodas are most of the time done by the Suger manufacturing companies like Domino, and if course they do the studies the way they wanna see it. Now they will spend millions on it as they spend on Advertising
Sorry this was largest study of its kind. Presented at American College of Cardiology meeting a few days ago. They will always take into account confounding variables. However, this is an association, not a causation. But there have been some other smaller studies also showing an association. I’m just glad I’m male, well, until the next study comes out…
Copy from article:
After an average follow-up of 8.7 years, the primary outcome – a composite of incident coronary heart disease, congestive heart failure, heart attack, coronary revascularization procedure, ischemic stroke, peripheral arterial disease and cardiovascular death – occurred in 8.5 percent of the women consuming two or more diet drinks a day compared to 6.9 percent in the five-to-seven diet drinks per week group; 6.8 percent in the one-to-four drinks per week group; and 7.2 percent in the zero-to-three per month group.
The association persisted even after researchers adjusted the data to account for demographic characteristics and other cardiovascular risk factors and comorbidities, including body mass index, smoking, hormone therapy use, physical activity, energy intake, salt intake, diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol and sugar-sweetened beverage intake. Women who consumed two or more diet drinks a day were younger, more likely to be smokers, and had a higher prevalence of diabetes, hypertension and higher body mass index.
But Vyas says the association between diet drinks and cardiovascular problems raises more questions than it answers, and should stimulate further research.
“We only found an association, so we can’t say that diet drinks cause these problems,” Vyas said, adding that there may be other factors about people who drink more diet drinks that could explain the connection.