When my patients are not sure they can change their sweet diets, I ask if they would at least consider quitting soda pop. Most of them are surprised to hear how toxic it is. Years of sugar coating by the soda industry are not easy to overcome. Good luck to you.
Artificially sweetened drinks may be as bad for heart as sugar-sweetened beverages
CNN (10/26, LaMotte) reports, “Artificially sweetened beverages…may be just as bad for your heart as the sugar-laden kind,” researchers concluded after analyzing “data from over 100,000 adult French volunteers participating in the French NutriNet-Santé.” The findings were published online in a research letter in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. MedPage Today (10/26, Lou) reports, “People who drank the most sugary drinks (a median 185 ml or 6.26 fl oz per day – barely half a can of ordinary soda) were more likely to experience a CVD event compared with non-consumers of these drinks,” the study revealed, while “those who drank relatively more artificially sweetened beverages (176.7 ml or 5.97 fl oz per day) had higher CVD risk over a median 6.6 years of follow-up compared with non-consumers of the drinks.”
