Is Drinking Diet Soda a Health Risk?

Send us Fan MailJoin Newsletter get Free Gift:https://mailchi.mp/5e4f8e9f90e7/untitled-pageLeave us a VoiceMail https://www.speakpipe.com/thingsyoushouldknow**Support the Podcast**SuperCast: https://thingsyoushouldknow.supercast.comPatreon:  https://www.patreon.com/thingsyoushouldknowpodcast**Social Media***Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/879254746173653Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thing.syoushouldknow/**Fitness, Yoga and Mindfulness**Alo Moves: https://www.talkable.com/x/rSpBAv**Free 30 day trial / Yoga, Mindfulness and Meditation-------------------------------------------------------------About one in five Americans drinks diet soda every day, according to the CDC. Is that a good thing?Numerous studies over the past several years have reported links between diet soda and weight gain, diabetes, heart problems, and other health issues. Most recently, headlines sounded alarms about a higher chance of dementia and stroke among diet soda drinkers .That may sound worrisome, but experts say you don’t need to clear the diet drinks out of your fridge just yet. Many questions must be answered before we’ll know whether diet soda raises your chance of health problems.Diet Soda, Dementia and StrokeBoston University researcher Matthew Pase, PhD, and colleagues examined 10 years of health information from nearly 3,000 American adults over 45 to count the number who had a stroke. They did the same for nearly 1,500 American adults over 60 to determine how many developed dementia.After accounting for a variety of things that could influence their health, such as age, physical activity, and waist size, the researchers found that diet soda drinkers nearly tripled their odds of stroke and dementia, compared with those who drank no diet soda.Scary, right? Not necessarily, says Pase. Only 81, or 5%, of the people in the study were diagnosed with dementia, and only 97, or 3%, had a stroke.“At the end of the day, we’re talking about small numbers of people,” says Pase. “I don’t think that people should be alarmed.”Pase also makes clear that his study’s results, published in April in the journal Stroke, don’t explain the link. Do diet sodas cause health problems like stroke and dementia? Or do people who have higher chances of getting such health problems choose to drink diet soda, perhaps to try to cut sugar and calories in their diets? Pase can’t say.Support the Podcast:  https://www.buzzsprout.com/1590358/support Closing of ReThinkBuzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREEBuzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched!Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show