Comments on: Diet sodas and health risks

By: KoKo

KoKo — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:11:00 +0000

I’ll pass on the salad and have instead, a nice cold Pepsi. At least the Pepsi won’t give me a case of
diarrhea.

By: Judy

Judy — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:34:00 +0000

This study struck me as being rather like the one which concluded that babies who slept with a night light were more likely to be nearsighted.

I read that one and said, "Duh! Nearsighted parents, who are more likely to have nearsighted kids, are more likely to need a night light."

I expect that someone will re-work these numbers and find out that you're on target with this. It's amazingly common to see someone order a diet soda with their supersize fries and biggie burger instead of getting the salad or grilled chicken also available in most fast food restaurants.

By: KipEsquire

KipEsquire — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:47:00 +0000

The study was about the impact of consuming soda, some of which has caffeine has some of which does not. That was my only point.

What does coffee have to do with it?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:35:00 +0000

“I’ve read a few versions of this story and nowhere have I seen the word “caffeine.” Which is a bit scary, when you think about it.”

If this were a caffeine issue it would affect coffee drinkers more than soda drinkers based on the concentration. I’m going to make an unsubstantiated guess that caffeine isn’t the issue.

By: KipEsquire

KipEsquire — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:51:00 +0000

I’ve read a few versions of this story and nowhere have I seen the word “caffeine.” Which is a bit scary, when you think about it.

By: throckmorton

throckmorton — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:42:00 +0000

There is another problem with diet sodas according to a “Green collegue”. He was ranting about global warming while drinking a diet coke and how we are buring up the planet with our CO2. I thought, isn’t that CO2 that is coming out of your Coke. For that matter didn’t it take energy to run the compressors to make the C02 to put it into the can? Then he belched which I can only assume contained more CO2. I thought maybee if he had metabolic syndrome, he might retain CO2 and help the environment. Unfortunately, diet soda does not cause metabolic syndrome.