Diet drinks linked to risk of stroke and dementia

end of the road · 22-04-2017 12:57AM

i have always been of the belief that diet anything is as far from diet as it gets.
there is always a catch with these things. there really is no healthier version of unhealthy foods or drinks.

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup · 22-04-2017 01:03AM

i drink from 4 to 6 litres of Coke Zero a day. i'm not joking.

i often do wonder of the longterm affects. obviously it can't be healthy drinking that much but then people still smoke so fcuk it

InTheTrees · 22-04-2017 01:31AM

Once a day

georgiecasey wrote: »

i drink from 4 to 6 litres of Coke Zero a day. i'm not joking.

i often do wonder of the longterm affects.

:eek:

Well it looks like you dont have to wonder about the long term effects any more.

Stroke and early dementia.

Something to consider.

oneilla · 22-04-2017 01:44AM

end of the road wrote: »

i have always been of the belief that diet anything is as far from diet as it gets.
there is always a catch with these things. there really is no healthier version of unhealthy foods or drinks.

Bingo! A bit like diet cigarettes

In order to comply with a 2006 court ruling in United States v. Philip Morris USA, Inc., et al.,[8] Philip Morris (and all other cigarette companies) is now prevented from using words such as "Lights", "Ultra-Lights", "Medium", "Mild", or any similar designation that yields a false impression that they are safer than regular full flavor cigarettes. Thus Marlboro and other cigarette companies must use only color-coding instead; for example Marlboro Lights are now called Marlboro Gold Pack.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlboro_(cigarette)

Academic · 22-04-2017 02:58AM

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georgiecasey wrote: »

i drink from 4 to 6 litres of Coke Zero a day. i'm not joking.

i often do wonder of the longterm affects. obviously it can't be healthy drinking that much but then people still smoke so fcuk it

So your position is:

(1) Other people smoke

therefore

(2) I want to get my feet amputated and become demented.

Hey, if it works for you … :rolleyes:

Junkyard Tom · 22-04-2017 03:27AM

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ceadaoin. wrote: »

All diet food is a huge scam. Its filled with chemicals and sugar/sweeteners to give it some semblance of a normal taste and still tastes horrible.

Yeah, they take all the goodness out of milk, replace it with flavouring and colours, described it as 'skimmed milk' and raise the price because you're concerned about your health. The triumph of marketing over reason.

suicide_circus · 22-04-2017 03:30AM

Life gives me stroke and dementia

Dirty Dingus McGee · 22-04-2017 08:40AM

Once a day

I never drink diet drinks (apart from a few 7up zero's because there was no other option), what the point of drinking a supposed healthy version of something that isn't good for you in the first place.

I wouldn't be too worried about this research, everything seems to give people either dementia or cancer these days and in a few weeks time there will probably be another piece of research saying coke zero reduces the risk of dementia.

timthumbni · 22-04-2017 08:43AM

Deleted User wrote: »

For Coke Zero addicts like myself, this is not good. As I don't smoke, or take alcohol or other drugs, Coke Zero is all my dietary vices in one. While it's only 3-5% of the people surveyed who developed a stroke or dementia, the researchers make it very clear that there are so many unknowns about artificial sweeteners and diet drinks that it would be foolish to think the consequences are limited to only 5%. The scientific evidence against artificial sweeteners seems to be growing all the time:

Diet drinks linked to risk of stroke and dementia

I'd love to be able to retrain my tastebuds to find water - even sparkling water - as tasty as Coke Zero! Grrr.

Do you believe diet drinks are worse for your health than full sugar drinks?

It's a good thing that dementia has only been around for the last 20 years or so... just like diet drinks.... now I'm not saying the 2 things are connected but....

danmanw8 · 19-05-2017 12:39PM

Deleted User wrote: »

For Coke Zero addicts like myself, this is not good. As I don't smoke, or take alcohol or other drugs, Coke Zero is all my dietary vices in one. While it's only 3-5% of the people surveyed who developed a stroke or dementia, the researchers make it very clear that there are so many unknowns about artificial sweeteners and diet drinks that it would be foolish to think the consequences are limited to only 5%. The scientific evidence against artificial sweeteners seems to be growing all the time:

Diet drinks linked to risk of stroke and dementia

I'd love to be able to retrain my tastebuds to find water - even sparkling water - as tasty as Coke Zero! Grrr.

Do you believe diet drinks are worse for your health than full sugar drinks?

According to this dementia article, alcohol, smoking and diet are the main contributors to dementia. You say you don't smoke or drink. What's your diet like otherwise? If you're otherwise healthy, maybe it's ok, surely diet drinks don't cause these things all by themselves.

Maybe add a concentrate to flavoured water as an alternative

TerrorFirmer · 19-05-2017 01:29PM

Up to 3 times a day

I drink Pepsi Max and Diet Coke because I can't stand the syrupy, sugary taste of the normal versions. I hate how people act like those who consume diet drinks are somehow in some sort of denial.

TerrorFirmer · 19-05-2017 01:30PM

Up to 3 times a day

There are also some diet drinks use Sucralose rather than Aspartame sweetener, if you're that paranoid.

RWCNT · 19-05-2017 02:30PM

I got a free can of the new Coke Zero of some promo people there on my lunchbreak. Actually tastes like the real thing, lovely stuff.

xzanti · 19-05-2017 03:12PM

Once a day

I stopped drinking all fizzy drinks about 5 years ago, never looked back.

If it's Christmas or a party I might have a full fat Fanta or 7UP but I wouldn't touch the 'no sugar' ones. I see 'diet', I see chemical sh1tstorm.

Irish Guitarist · 19-05-2017 04:11PM

I find ZX diet cola from Aldi tastier than any diet Coke or Pepsi. If I'm in Aldi I get a couple of bottles, if not I buy Pepsi Max. If I'm in a shop that only has Coke I buy normal Coke because Diet Coke tastes like Alka Seltzer. I drink at least a two litre bottle of some kind of cola most days. Sometimes I might drink two bottles.

mad muffin · 19-05-2017 05:31PM

We drink wadi at home and very day…

dark crystal · 19-05-2017 06:00PM

Up to 3 times a day

I'd drink a Diet Coke or Coke Zero every day. Dementia and strokes be damned - you'll have to pry them from my cold, dead hands.

I take all these studies with a pinch of salt; if we paid attention to all of them, we'd be living on sterile macrobiotic diet and that's no life at all. It's all about balance.

Diet drinks linked to risk of stroke and dementia

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