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A comment on Bill to put health warnings on soda and sugary drinks advances in California. Parent comment

Re:Bill to put health warnings on soda and sugary drinks adv... by smileysteve on Friday May 24, 2019 @10:56AM (#20002179)
> We already have diet soda, yet people choose full sugar.

We already have science that shows diet sodas increase diabetes and obesity almost 2 for 1 (through calorie) craving and are in many ways worse (calcium malabsorption) than high fructose corn syrup.

Then we have you ignoring the science, and saying just choose diet soda.

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/95/4/909/4576821

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Re:Bill to put health warnings on soda and sugary drinks adv... by i_cannot_hack on Friday May 24, 2019 @11:22AM (#20002461)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do not see any conclusion in that study that diet drinks are worse than non-diet drinks regarding metabolic syndrome (only that diet drinks might also be bad to some degree).

A study analysing 36000 deaths and 3 million person-years (published by the American Heart Association) found a 21% increase in all cause mortality among those consuming 2 or more sugar sweetened beverages per day. Consuming 2 or more artificially sweetened beverages, on the other hand, was associated with only a 4% increase. And moderate consumtion of artificially sweetened beverages (< 2 per day) was actually, unlike sugar, associated with decreased mortality. [1]

[1] https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA....

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