For many, the one thing they just can’t quit is their diet soda addiction.
And that’s bad news. With mounting evidence against diet soda, it’s gotten hard to say that diet soda has any benefits against its sugary counterpart.
A study done by the Karolinska Institute in Sweden is the most recent vote against diet soda. It found that men who drank two or more servings of diet soda per day had a 23 percent higher risk of developing heart failure.
A serving, in this study, counted as 200 ml. For many Americans, 2 servings is any normal day, maybe even a lean day. For these people, this may be a wake up call.
This research included 42,400 men over a span of 12 years. It found 3,604 cases of a link between heart failure and beverage consumption.
509 people died from the condition during the study.
The researchers believe that these findings “could have implications for heart failure prevention strategies.”
The researchers also said that “The well-known association of sweetened beverages with obesity and Type 2 diabetes, which are risk factors of heart failure, reinforces the biological plausibility of the findings.
They also say that the results may have to do with the lifestyle of those who drink two sweetened drinks or more per day. These people’s lifestyles, they say, are already unhealthy, so it makes sense they would be more at risk for heart failure.
“Sweetened beverages” refers to anything with artificial sweeteners, such as Diet Coke, Pepsi Max, or other beverages marketed as “diet” due to the technical absence of sugar.
