Diet Soda.

[macuu222]

Anyone drinking diet soda out there?

http://planetgreen.discovery.com/food-he...-risk.html

[hikatz]

Thank you, sent the link to a family member who only drinks diet soda.

[JerryCarr]

The research found a corelation between diet soda consumption and strokes, but corelation does not automatically equal causality. Quoting from the study, "Scientists factored in the age, ethnicity, gender, exercise habits, smoking status, alcohol consumption, and caloric intake." They apparently did not factor in obesity and diabetes, two well known contributors to stroke incidence. Diabetics and obese individuals who drink soda would naturally tend toward the diet type. The study may be flawed unless the article quoted left out some important methodology measures.

[macuu222]

I have noticed the price of diet coke in the hilo grocery stores drop substantially in the last couple of weeks...

[PaulW]

I hope this forum doesn't become one (of many) where people post any
lamebrain thing they read on the internet.

Hawaii-related how? Oh yes, some people here drink diet soda.

If diet soda caused strokes it would be on CNN, not just "planetgreen.com".

A stranger came up to me on the street once when I was holding a diet drink and told me it was dangerous. I thanked him for his concern and said I had advice for him too: don't be so gullible.

Meanwhile ponder the health effects if these scare tactics caused people to switch back to full-fat soda.

[macuu222]

Some people may think this is worthwhile news and some may think its a joke. That's whats so great about a forum like this...you can present the information to people and let them decide if it's important or not based on what was presented. It certainly isn't as stupid a subject as some other topics on here...

BTW...You ever think that maybe CNN and others might have the diet soda people as their business customers? They're not going to showcase one study that adversely affects their million dollar clients unless they have to!

[PaulW]

Other topics may be dumber but at least they relate to Hawaii!
Been watching CNN for a while, don't remember ever seeing a Diet Pepsi ad.

I'm looking forward to threads about UFOs, BigFoot, fake moon landings. Yes, let everyone make up their own mind, don't worry about facts.

[PaulW]

"Storey pointed out that this information comes from a research paper abstract presented at a conference, and was not in a study reviewed for publication by experts in the field. Also, the study authors did not control for weight gain or for family history of stroke."

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/10...re-a-link/

[punaticbychoice]

Drink beer.
But seriously, I've seen nothing to convince me that either diet or regular soft drinks are dangerous.
What I personally like rarely, is just regular sugar (sucrose) soft drinks.
The ones with fructose (corn syrup) taste like engine oil to me.

[silverpenny10]

Aspertame, the fake sugar mostly used in diet foods, is a poison. There's plenty of data out there so we needn't live in the dark any longer. There's no 'full fat' sugar. Counting calories to lose fat is severely flawed. Sugar is not one of the food groups but if we are to eat it, choose real food, not fake food.