If diet soda seems a good alternative to diet soft drinks, it seems that it is not safe. That's what researchers have discovered U.S. after a study presented earlier this week at the International Conference of the American Stroke Association in Los Angeles.
According to their results, those who drink diet soda daily increase their risk of stroke by 61% compared to those who consume no soda. In reaching this conclusion, U.S. scientists followed for over 9 years nearly 2,560 individuals as part of project called Northern Manhattan Study (nomas).
Through questionnaires, they asked participants about the quantity and type of soda that they were accustomed to eating: about 2,564 individuals, 24% admitted drinking soda light, about 5% daily, while 35% said they never drink soda. Thus, participants were grouped into seven categories ranging from those never drank soda, those who drank moderately each day. To complement these data, scientists were also interested in age, gender, ethnicity and other factors such as alcohol consumption, diet, physical activity and being smoke or not.
At the end of the study, 559 individuals had died of strokes. And even taking into account the excess weight and history of participants, the risk of stroke and major consumers of diet soda remained 48% higher than those of others. "If our results are confirmed, they suggested that diet soda is not the best alternative to sugary drinks whose consequences on health have already been demonstrated, "the ... read the rest of the article on Maxisciences
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