If it's diet, it has to be good. Right? Earlier this year, my dad and I were having a discussion about the relative worth of his lite white bread vs. my honey wheat. "I looked at the packaging and they have the same nutritional value," he claimed. "So do Diet Pepsi and water, but you can't tell me they're the same," I quipped back. Science it seems has come through for me again. I stumbled across this article (VITAL SIGNS; Metabolic Syndrome Is Tied to Diet Soda) in The New York Times.
The article doesn't make any claims about the study beyond the fact that a correlation exists. Lyn M. Steffen, who co-authored the paper, notes it could be the soda or behavorial differences in the diet soda drinkers. The info was enough to make me give up soda for Lent - a resolution I've subsequently cheated on. Still just some food for thought.
Researchers have found a correlation between drinking diet soda and metabolic syndrome -- the collection of risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes that include abdominal obesity, high cholesterol and blood glucose levels -- and elevated blood pressure. ... surprisingly, the risk of developing metabolic syndrome was 34 percent higher among those who drank one can of diet soda a day compared with those who drank none.
The article doesn't make any claims about the study beyond the fact that a correlation exists. Lyn M. Steffen, who co-authored the paper, notes it could be the soda or behavorial differences in the diet soda drinkers. The info was enough to make me give up soda for Lent - a resolution I've subsequently cheated on. Still just some food for thought.
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