Comments on: Study: Diet Soda May Carry Heart Risks

Researchers Surprised To Find Diet Sodas Carry Same Risks As Regular Sodas

[minminmin-2009]

I quit drinking all sodas years ago, and I'm glad I did. Now I just drink water, tea (iced tea if I want a cold drink) and 100% juices (no sugar or anything else added). You don't have to be a dietician or a chemist to figure out the more a food/drink is processed (chemicals added/removed), the worse it will be for you.

[donkeyhouse]

Weight gain from something that has zero calories is illogical.

[family2007-2009]

RedStripe12,

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"I have been pop-free for almost 10 months now (and I used to drink caffeine-free diet Coke like it was going out of style--2-5 cans daily min.). I have lost 25 pounds in that time."

I concur with you. I was able to lose weight as well--even when my diet consisted ONLY of cutting back on the soda (both regular AND diet), and turning to water. When I went back to my old habits (it's around 2 cans a day now), I started gaining weight again.

I'm not preaching this to anyone, this is solely from my own experience. Your milage may vary.

[donkeyhouse]

How many fat pigs do you know that drink diet soda with 2 super sized meals? This is such a bogus study and irresponsible "journalism". There is no accountability anymore. "suggests a large but inconclusive study..."

[talkingham]

As if the high frutose corn syrup wasn't enough (and it's in a lot of those so-called fitness waters- what a joke!) the acids added to soft drinks now to "unsweetnen" the insanely sweet artificial sweeteners and 12 spoons of corn syrup per drink is something even dental researchers have been compaining about. I don't think Coke and Pepsi will sit by on this- they'll run out their bought-off nutritionists to say everything is fine. But it's not, and kids who don't know any better are the one's whose health will suffer in years to come as they slug down fast food slop and pizza by the pound. Healthanomics in this country are a sad joke and your health is sold to the lowest bidder and big drug companies and TV networks who make out like bandits every night with their commercials telling you that you aren't a healthy person day after day. An you know what, if you eat they slop they serve up you can't be a healthy person.

[my2centss]

Make soda like they used to. Go back to real sugar, citric acid(instead of phosphoric acid), no sodium benzoate, and no artificial colors/flavors. Then we might see a difference in health.

[redstripe12]

I have been pop-free for almost 10 months now (and I used to drink caffeine-free diet Coke like it was going out of style--2-5 cans daily min.). I have lost 25 pounds in that time. Several other things I noticed:

1) I could taste sodium in my food
2) My appetite decreased
3) My craving for sugar decreased
4) My energy level went up
5) Increase in sexual desire / stamina

Not to say that pop was causing all of my ills, but I'm convinced giving it up completely is one of the best lifestyle changes one can make.

Also, do not let your kids drink pop! Water, soy milk or freshly squeezed juice are the best options, IMHO.

[mrhoppy-2009]

GrammaWhamma - Telling who made aspartame (Rumsfelds Searle Labs) that the pentagon listed it as a chem/bio warfare agent and why they are putting it into the food that the poor tend to consume is not a political debate... I don't drink, use drugs, weight 165 LBS, am 50 years old and unlike you, am capable of critical thinking and have more to offer than baseless slander. Are you an aspartame junkie or just shilling for the Nazis?

Since aspartame breaks down into methanol and methanol is an excitotoxin which means it is addictive, it is no wonder that people won't / can't stop drinking it. Meth is meth.

Alcohol is allowed to be up to 3% methyl alcohol and methyl alcohol is what makes an alcoholic, not the grain alcohol. I.e., 100 proof means 50% grain alcohol and 1.5% methyl alcohol.

Telling an aspartame junkie is like going into a bar and telling a drunk "quit drinking, that stuff will kill you." They don't want to hear it.

[erasmus6]

Actually I am pretty sure the aspartame has pickled his brain because he drinks diet pop because he is diabetic but keeps on eating everything else, like pie, cake, cookies, candy....go figure!

[erasmus6]

I quit drinking pop years ago and just started drinking water. I bought a juicer recently so now once and awhile I will make my own juice. When I quit drinking the pop I lost 20 pounds.

My husband on the other hand drinks diet Pepsi. I keep telling him he needs to quit drinking it but it ain't going to happen. He is a diabetic and one day a few years ago he started getting dizzy. We thought maybe it was an inner ear problem. Anyways he ended up going to the emergency and they ran a bunch of tests on him, they thought maybe it was his heart. In the end they figured he was dehydrated. The caffeine in the pop can dehydrate you and I guess with him being a diabetic, it made it worse.
I keep telling him the aspartame in the diet pop is going to pickle his brain. (actually i think it already has):)