DIET SODAS BAD FOR YOU DIFFERENTLY

One thing I always thought about growing up was how diet sodas are used as a shield against eating poorly. The old joke has the fat guy ordering a huge dinner and a giant piece of cake for desert but then, to drink, he orders a diet soda.

Ha.

Well, it turns out that joke may be funnier than you might think thanks to a new study. The following cutting comes from [http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/conditions/07/24/diet.sodas/index.html|a July 24, 2007] article at CNN.com. It reports:

People who drink one or more soft drinks a day have a more than 50 percent higher risk of developing the heart disease precursor metabolic syndrome than people who drink less than one soda a day, a new study has found. And it didn't matter if it was a regular soda or a diet soda.

Metabolic syndrome is a constellation of health problems -- high waist circumference, high blood pressure, low levels of "good" cholesterol," and other health problems -- that have been strongly linked to developing heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.

In a nutshell? It looks like diet soda is just about as bad for you as regular soda, only it's bad for you in slightly different ways. In the end, any kind of soda is just plain unhealthy. I've been staying generally away from sodas for about four years now and I haven't missed them, really. Of course, it helps that I actually do drink a non-diet soda once a month (or less) but that tiny amount of soda isn't likely enough to harm me.

So, don't think it's about going cold turkey--it's about going mostly cold turkey. We're all humans, after all ^_^ .

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