Diet Soda and Dementia
A study published last week in the journal Stroke found that drinking even one can of diet soda a day triples your risk of dementia.
This is the first study to find a link between artificial sweeteners and dementia, mostly because this seems to be the first time researchers have looked for a connection between the two. This provocative finding will now prompt more researchers to ask the same question, which will shed a lot more light on the situation.
As it stands, the evidence that drinking diet soda may contribute to dementia risk is circumstantial, at best. This study simply observed that people who drink diet soda regularly are a lot more likely to eventually be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.
Story via Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/diet-soda-and-dementia-what-you-need-to-know
Paper (open the PDF for full article):
http://stroke.ahajournals.org/content/early/2017/04/20/STROKEAHA.116.016027
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Too late for me, then. :-(
ReplyDeleteIf nothing else, we should be skeptical because the various artificial sweeteners are vastly different chemicals, and treating them as one class of substance doesn't make much sense when they don't necessarily interact with the body the same way.
ReplyDeleteI did like the recent "how much do people actually pee in the pool" articles that were based on measured concentration of artificial sweeteners found from pool water samples. Sneaky!
ReplyDeleteAre any foods/drinks safe to eat/drink anymore?
ReplyDeleteEverything is altered with chems...so nothing surprises me anymore.
Diet drinks always had that chemical taste to me, even as a kid, and I never consumed them because of that. Lucky me. My palate, which is a professional one, seems able to taste the chemicals in almost every food it is put in. Your correct,Corina, nothing surprises !
ReplyDeleteCorina Marinescu: home-grown heirloom tomatoes. Oh man.
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