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Nutrition

FOOD•HOLISTIC•WELLNESS•LONGEVITY•PREVENTION

Diet Drinks May Increase Stroke and Disability

is the problem; it’s
BY SUZY COHEN the artificial chem-
icals inside of these
(SENIOR WIRE) We are so attached to our food and drink that it pains drinks. It’s egregious
me when I have to take something away from you. But this is an old that these things
story for me. I have never ever recommended artificially sweetened are not only allowed
sodas or “diet” anything! to be sold, no less
To me, that whole industry is a multi-billion dollar campaign pitched to you as
effort to get you to drink and eat things that aren’t, by definition, food some healthy alter-
anymore. The entire industry depends on the illusion of you thinking native. So it’s really
that diet drinks are healthy. up to you to know
The latest research is frightening. It’s based upon data collected better.
over 12 years and suggests that consuming just five diet drinks (sodas, The newest
juices, other) correlates to a much higher risk of stroke and heart research was pub-
disease and, in fact, a dramatically higher risk of dying early from lished in a journal
any cause. called Stroke. Over
This data was extrapolated from a study on people over the age 80,000 wo m en
of 50, who did not have other major health problems. They were were studied, most
essentially well, but after drinking artificially sweetened drinks for between the ages of
12 years, a lot of them had a stroke! 55 and 79. Drinking a
What’s wrong with water? Water does not come with the risk couple of diet drinks
that one day someone will have to change your adult diapers. Water each day (335ml
makes sense, yet some health practitioners recommend “diet” which is the amount
beverages as a way to cut calories, support weight loss, or improve in a typical can of
health status. soda) increases your
The study I’ve been referring to is entitled, “Artificially Sweetened risk for stroke by 23
Beverages and Stroke, Coronary Heart Disease, and All-Cause Mortality percent, compared © STOYCHO STOYCHEV, BIGSTOCK.COM
in the Women’s Health Initiative.” to women who drink
The study finds that risk for a hemorrhagic stroke is dramat- less than one per week.
ically higher if you drink a lot of diet sodas. No particular brand Every 40 seconds, someone in the U.S. has a stroke. If survived,
a stroke can leave one paralyzed and sometimes in need of nursing
home care or bedridden. Other post-TIA or stroke disabilities include
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