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This is a pet peeve of mine. I remember going to the diabetic clinic with myhusband when he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and the dietitian told himhe could 1 drink diet pop a day.  I made the comment “he might as wellhave a Persian once a week.  Well the fight was on.  And of course myhusband didn't get it either.  I didn't realize he was drinking 1 to 2liters of coke every day much more on the weekend with rum.

Many people ask me why they can’t loose weight when they watch what they eat,lots of healthy choices, read labels etc. yet they think nothing about drinkingcoke or Pepsi regularly & diet thinking they are helping themselves by nothaving the regular. 

 Posted on January 31, 2012 by Stone Hearth News

Individuals who drink diet soft drinks on a daily basis may be at increasedrisk of suffering vascular events such as stroke, heart attack, and vasculardeath. This is according to a new study by Hannah Gardener and her colleaguesfrom the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and at Columbia University Medical Center.However, in contrast, they found that regular soft drink consumption and a moremoderate intake of diet soft drinks do not appear to be linked to a higher riskof vascular events. The research¹ appears online in the Journal of GeneralInternal Medicine², published by Springer.

In the current climate of escalating obesity rates, artificially sweetenedsoft drinks are marketed as healthier alternatives to sugar-sweetenedbeverages, due to their lack of calories. However, the long-term healthconsequences of drinking diet soft drinks remain unclear.

Gardener and team examined the relationship between both diet and regular soft drink consumption and risk of stroke, myocardial infarction (or heart attack), and vascular death. Data were analyzed from 2,564 participants in the NIH-funded Northern Manhattan Study, which was designed to determine stroke incidence, risk factors and prognosis in a multi-ethnic urban population. The researchers looked at how often individuals drank soft drinks – diet and regular – and the number of vascular events that occurred over a ten-year period.

They found that those who drank diet soft drinks daily were 43 percent more likely to have suffered a vascular event than those who drank none, after taking into account pre-existing vascular conditions such as metabolic syndrome, diabetes and high blood pressure. Light diet soft drink users, i.e. those who drank between one a month and six a week, and those who chose regular soft drinks were not more likely to suffer vascular events.

Gardener concludes: “Our results suggest a potential association between daily diet soft drink consumption and vascular outcomes. However, the mechanisms by which soft drinks may affect vascular events are unclear. There is a need for further research before any conclusions can be drawn regarding the potential health consequences of diet soft drink consumption.

”###Reference

1. Gardener H et al (2012). Diet soft drink consumption is associated with an increased risk of vascular events in the Northern Manhattan Study. Journal of General Internal Medicine. DOI 10.1007/s11606-011-1968-2

2. The Journal of General Internal Medicine is the official journal of the Society of General Internal Medicine.

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It will be 2 year this coming March that my husband had  triple bypass surgery.  He still drinks his diet pop?????

Just a wife who hopes the diabetic clinics will refocus their teaching of soft drinks with caution and limit amounts or 0 since as all  wives know husbands like kids don't always listen to advice we give.

Have a great eveing.

Anne