RESEARCH - Diet soda fizzles

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Diabetes Forecast

May 2008

" Diet Soda Fizzles " :

You may want to put down that diet soda. New research inserts a

question mark after the " diet " part of your drink.

In the study, people who drank a can or more of diet soda daily showed

a 34-percent higher risk of developing the metabolic syndrome: a

cluster of cardiovascular disease and diabetes risk factors including

elevated waist circumference and high blood pressure, blood lipids,

and fasting glucose levels.

Why would that be? Study coauthor Lyn Steffen, PhD, MPH, RD, says she

is as mystified as the rest of us. But she offers some possible

explanations. " It could be an ingredient in the soda itself, like the

artificial sweetener, which might be causing something like insulin

resistance, " speculates Steffen, associate professor of epidemiology

at the University of Minnesota. " Or it could be something to do with

the behavior of people who consume diet soda—what other foods they're

eating and how much exercise they're getting throughout the day. "

Her research team tracked the dietary intake and health status of

9,500 men and women, 45 to 64 years old, over nine years. They found

that people who ate the most meat raised their risk of developing

metabolic syndrome by about 25 percent. And those who regularly ate

Western-style cuisine like refined grains and fried foods upped their

risk 18 percent.

But diet soda involved the highest risk—and, Steffen notes, a recent Purdue

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Read the entire article here:

http://www.forecast.diabetes.org/magazine/research-shorts/diet-soda-fizzles

Not an MD

[Guest guest]

I started to drink diet soda only after I was diagnosed with diabetes.

Before that, I drank the sugary kind.

If you happened to have received the diabetes gene, you will develop

diabetes eventually, in spite of everything you do. An exception would

be if you exercise like crazy and eat few carbs to begin with.

But diabetes is my favorite of the diseases I have, much more

preferable than RA, because you can take steps to control it and

hopefully avoid the dreadful complications that can occur.

Sue

On Monday, December 1, 2008, at 09:37 PM, wrote:

> In the study, people who drank a can or more of diet soda daily showed

> a 34-percent higher risk of developing the metabolic syndrome: a

> cluster of cardiovascular disease and diabetes risk factors including

> elevated waist circumference and high blood pressure, blood lipids,

> and fasting glucose levels.

[Guest guest]

What about this, Sue?:

National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse

Oct 2008

" Diabetes Prevention Program " :

http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/preventionprogram/

Not an MD

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Sue <marysue@...> wrote:

> I started to drink diet soda only after I was diagnosed with diabetes.

> Before that, I drank the sugary kind.

>

> If you happened to have received the diabetes gene, you will develop

> diabetes eventually, in spite of everything you do. An exception would

> be if you exercise like crazy and eat few carbs to begin with.

>

> But diabetes is my favorite of the diseases I have, much more

> preferable than RA, because you can take steps to control it and

> hopefully avoid the dreadful complications that can occur.

>

> Sue