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Are
diet soft drinks bad for you? - Science Daily, 1/31/12 -
"Individuals who drink diet soft drinks on a daily
basis may be at increased risk of suffering vascular events such as stroke,
heart attack, and vascular death ... in contrast, they found that regular
soft drink consumption and a more moderate intake of diet soft drinks do not
appear to be linked to a higher risk of vascular events ... those who drank
diet soft drinks daily were 43 percent more likely to have suffered a
vascular event than those who drank none"
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Waistlines in people, glucose levels in mice hint at sweeteners' effects:
Related studies point to the illusion of the artificial - Science Daily,
6/27/11 - "In the constant battle to lose inches or
at least stay the same, we reach for the diet soda. Two studies presented
June 25 and 27 at the American Diabetes Association's Scientific Sessions in
San Diego suggest this might be self-defeating behavior ... diet soft drink
consumption is associated with increased waist circumference in humans, and
a second study that found aspartame raised fasting glucose (blood sugar) in
diabetes-prone mice ... The average follow-up time was 9.5 years ... Diet
soft drink users, as a group, experienced 70 percent greater increases in
waist circumference compared with non-users. Frequent users, who said they
consumed two or more diet sodas a day, experienced waist circumference
increases that were 500 percent greater than those of non-users ... In the
related project ... One group of the mice ate chow to which both aspartame
and corn oil were added; the other group ate chow with the corn oil added
but not the aspartame. After three months on this high-fat diet, the mice in
the aspartame group showed elevated fasting glucose levels but equal or
diminished insulin levels, consistent with early declines in pancreatic
beta-cell function"
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Fat
substitutes linked to weight gain: Rats on high-fat diet gained more weight
after eating low-calorie potato chips made with fat substitutes -
Science Daily, 6/20/11 - "Half of the rats in each
group also were fed Pringles potato chips that are high in fat and calories.
The remaining rats in each group were fed high-calorie Pringles chips on
some days and low-calorie Pringles Light chips on other days. The Pringles
Light chips are made with olestra, a synthetic fat substitute that has zero
calories and passes through the body undigested ... For rats on the high-fat
diet, the group that ate both types of potato chips consumed more food,
gained more weight and developed more fatty tissue than the rats that ate
only the high-calorie chips. The fat rats also didn't lose the extra weight
even after the potato chips were removed from their diet. "Based on this
data, a diet that is low in fat and calories might be a better strategy for
weight loss than using fat substitutes," ... Food with a sweet or fatty
taste usually indicates a large number of calories, and the taste triggers
various responses by the body, including salivation, hormonal secretions and
metabolic reactions. Fat substitutes can interfere with that relationship
when the body expects to receive a large burst of calories but is fooled by
a fat substitute ... Swithers and Davidson have reported similar findings in
previous rat studies that showed saccharin and other artificial sweeteners
also can promote weight gain and increased body fat"
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Diet
soda may raise odds of vascular events; Salt linked to stroke risk -
Science Daily, 2/9/11 - "In findings involving 2,564
people in the large, multi-ethnic Northern Manhattan Study (NOMAS),
scientists said people who drank diet soda every day had a 61 percent higher
risk of vascular events than those who reported no soda drinking ... In
separate research using 2,657 participants also in the Manhattan study,
scientists found that high salt intake, independent of the hypertension it
causes, was linked to a dramatically increased risk of ischemic strokes
(when a blood vessel blockage cuts off blood flow to the brain)"
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US
EPA removes saccharin from hazardous substances listing - Science Daily,
12/14/10
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Drinking Tea May Trim Men's Waistlines - WebMD, 1/29/10 -
"In men, the use of sugar in tea was associated with
a nearly 1-inch smaller waist measurement, but the use of artificial
sweeteners was linked to a nearly 2-inch larger waistline ... Among women,
the use of milk in tea was associated with a two-thirds-of-an-inch smaller
waistline. But women who used artificial sweeteners had an average of nearly
an inch larger waistline" - See
Jarrow green tea extract at iHerb
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Diet Sodas May Be Hard on the Kidneys - WebMD, 11/2/09 -
"Women who drank two or more diet sodas a day had a
30% drop in a measure of kidney function during the lengthy study follow-up
... Thirty percent is considered significant ... Put another way: the women
who drank two or more diet sodas a day had a decline in their glomerular
filtration rate, a measure of kidney function, of 3 milliliters per minute
per year. ''With natural aging, kidney function declines about 1 mL per
minute per year after age 40"
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Daily Diet Soda Consumption Linked to Metabolic Syndrome, Type 2 Diabetes
- Medscape, 2/11/09 - "Compared with participants
who did not drink diet soda, those who drank diet soda at least daily had a
36% greater relative risk for incident MetSyn (HR, 1.36; 95% confidence
interval [CI], 1.11 - 1.66) and a 67% greater relative risk for incident
type 2 diabetes"
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New
Salvo in Splenda Skirmish - New York Times, 9/22/08 -
"Splenda — the grainy white crystals in the little
yellow packets — contributes to obesity, destroys “good” intestinal bacteria
and prevents prescription drugs from being absorbed"
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Truvia, a new, natural, zero-calorie sweetener made from the stevia plant,
is making its debut online and in certain supermarkets in New York -
WebMD, 7/10/08 - "Truvia, a new, natural,
zero-calorie sweetener made from the stevia plant, is making its debut
online and in certain supermarkets in New York"
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Artificial Sweeteners Linked To Weight Gain - Science Daily, 2/10/08 -
"relative to rats that ate yogurt sweetened with
glucose (a simple sugar with 15 calories/teaspoon, the same as table sugar),
rats given yogurt sweetened with zero-calorie saccharin later consumed more
calories, gained more weight, put on more body fat, and didn't make up for
it by cutting back later, all at levels of statistical significance"
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Severe Weight Loss Can Be Caused By Chewing Gum, Doctors Report -
Science Daily, 1/11/08 - "sorbitol consumption can
cause not only chronic diarrhoea and functional bowel complaints but also
considerable unintended weight loss (about 20% of usual body weight)"
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Sweetener Side Effects: Case Histories - WebMD, 1/10/08
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Aspartame Deemed Safe By Expert Panel - Science Daily, 9/15/07
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1 Daily Soda May Boost Heart Disease - WebMD, 7/23/07 -
"Drinking just one soft drink a day -- whether diet
or regular -- may boost your risk of getting heart disease ... drinking one
or more sodas a day was linked with a 44% higher risk of participants
developing metabolic syndrome"
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Aspartame Safety Study Stirs Emotions - WebMD, 6/26/07
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EU: Sugar substitute poses no cancer risk - USA Today, 5/5/06
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Aspartame-Cancer Link Refuted - WebMD, 4/4/06
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New
Study Suggests Artificial Sweetener Causes Cancer In Rats At Levels
Currently Approved For Humans - Science Daily, 2/13/06 -
"aspartame is a multipotential
carcinogenic compound whose carcinogenic effects are also evident at a daily
dose of 20 milligrams per kilogram of body weight (mg/kg), notably less than
the current acceptable daily intake for humans"
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Artificial Sweeteners: Are They Safe? - ABC News, 2/13/06
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Rat Study Shows Cancer, Aspartame Link - WebMD, 11/18/05
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Rat Study Links Aspartame to Cancer - Science Daily, 7/29/05
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Sweetener 'linked' to leukaemias - BBC News, 7/14/05 -
"Compared with control rats given no
sweetener, many of the female rats in the experiment developed lymphomas or
leukaemias - the risk increasing with the dose of aspartame"
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Drink More Diet Soda, Gain More Weight - WebMD, 6/13/05
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Are Artificial
Sweeteners Safe? - WebMD, 3/25/05
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Beware of More Deceptive Splenda Propaganda - mercola.com, 3/16/05
- Sweetener in the Spotlight: Is Splenda Safe? -
WebMD, 2/16/05 - "there are
currently only a handful of studies that question
Splenda's
safety and more than 100 which attest to it's safe use ... it simply hasn't
been around long enough to amass any long-term data -- or even short-term
data involving heavy consumption"
- Consumer Group Questions Splenda's Claims -
mercola.com, 1/17/05
- Study: Fake Sweeteners Boost Rats' Eating -
Intelihealth, 7/8/04
- Sugar Alternatives: Separating the Sweet from the Chaff
- Natural Foods Merchandiser, 7/04
- Artificial Sweeteners May Damage Diet Efforts -
WebMD, 6/30/04
- Artificial Sweetener May Disrupt Body's Ability To Count Calories, According
To New Study - Science Daily, 6/30/04
- The skinny on
sweeteners - MSNBC, 1/1/04 - "Based on what sweeteners are available now, my choice is Splenda, or
sucralose, when used by itself" - See
Splenda
at drugstore.com.
- How Safe Are the Sugar Substitutes? - Time,
9/15/03 - "I
think that
sucralose is safe, that
aspartame is probably safe and that serious questions about saccharin
remain"
- Aspartame:
Can a Little Bit Hurt? - Dr. Weil, 9/25/02
- A Safer
Sweetener? [Splenda/sucralose] - Dr. Weil, 5/22/02 - See
Splenda
at drugstore.com.
- Read
the Deadly Truth about Aspartame
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