{"id":1997,"date":"2012-02-20T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/daily-diet-soda-may-increase-risk-of-heart-attack-stroke-study-reuters.html"},"modified":"2016-09-19T11:58:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T15:58:49","slug":"daily-diet-soda-may-increase-risk-of-heart-attack-stroke-study-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=1997","title":{"rendered":"Daily diet soda may increase risk of heart attack, stroke: study | Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here’s what the researchers found … (from the Journal of General Internal Medicine<\/i>) older adults who drank diet soda every day were 44 percent more likely to suffer a heart attack. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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44 percent!! That’s a HUGE number. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Here’s the caveat.<\/b> <\/span><\/span>
Their research showed a correlation between 2 things — more diet soda = more heart disease. That said, it may be something else about this population of diet soda drinkers that caused the heart attacks … Maybe diet soda drinkers are ALREADY overweight and so ALREADY have risk factors for heart disease. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Maybe maybe maybe. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Honestly? It may also be that diet sodas only contribute to the problem, but don’t cause it all by itself. So, science has some work to do over the next few years to tease apart this little puzzle and decide whether diet soda <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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  1. has nothing to do with the problem, <\/span><\/li>\n
  2. contributes to the problem, <\/span><\/li>\n
  3. or causes it outright. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n

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    Until then, what are YOU supposed to do? <\/b><\/span><\/span>
    Basically, you have to choose whether to believe that the 44 percent increase in heart disease risk can be explained away by something else … anything else. And, truly, that may ultimately turn out to be the final result of all the experiments over the next decade or so. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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    In the interim, while you’re waiting on science’s gavel to come down on this issue, a safe bet might be to have one of these crazy new alternative zero-calorie drinks called … water or tea. I think the science is already sorted out on those. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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    Daily diet soda may increase risk of heart attack, stroke: study | Reuters<\/span><\/a>

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    Here’s what the researchers found … (from the Journal of General Internal Medicine) older adults who drank diet soda every day were 44 percent more likely to suffer a heart … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[494],"tags":[296,527,320],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-diet-soda","tag-heart-attack","tag-stroke"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Qv5g-wd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1963,"url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=1963","url_meta":{"origin":1997,"position":0},"title":"What NOT to drink, apparently.","author":"Will Clower","date":"April 5, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Thirsty for good health? 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