Healthy Weight Loss
Diet soda Health Risk
This is a follow-up from a news item I watched Aljazeera.
Many people use diet soda as an alternative drink when seeking health weight loss, however new research suggest they are putting themselves at great risk of heart attack or stroke.
Lead researcher Hannah Gardener and her team, at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine carried out a study involving 2,600 adults over the past decade. The initial findings showed there was a 44% more likelihood of suffering a heart attack is you drink diet soda on a daily basis.
The results are not conclusive proof that sugar free drinks are to blame as there may be other explanations
"What we saw was an association,"said Gardener "These people may tend to have more unhealthy habits".
Daily diet-soda drinkers did tend to be heavier and more often have heart risk factors like high blood pressure, diabetes and unhealthy cholesterol levels.
The findings do build on a few recent studies that also found diet-soda drinkers are more likely to have certain cardiovascular risk factors, like high blood pressure or high blood sugar.
This is the first study, Gardener said, to look at actual "vascular events" that is, heart attacks, strokes and deaths from cardiovascular causes.
A further study out this month found that the advice may be sound. Obese people who were randomly assigned to drink water or diet drinks in place of sugary ones lost about five pounds over six months.
Gardener said that further studies such as hers are still needed to confirm a connection between diet soda and cardiovascular trouble.
David Ogden
Healthy Weight Loss
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