Sat, Feb-09-13, 12:23
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BTW, neither I nor the article said that diet soda causes diabetes
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Diet soda increases diabetes risk by 60%
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Right there... your posting heading says it. It doesn't say they're linked, it says diet soda increases diabetes. How is that not drawing the causative arrow?
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I have suspected this for years, that diet drinks are just as bad for you as regular. The sweet taste alone is enough to stimulate an insulin response. Please let this waken people up to the calorie myth.
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You agree with the causation, apparently. The sweet taste alone causing some sort of big insulin spike is the myth.
We secrete insulin for all kinds of reasons: Smelling something delicious, seeing a food advertisement on TV. Those sorts of insulin releases are very small and just get the body ready for bigger ones. But if there is an insulin release in the presence of non-caloric sweetness, and I've seen studies that say it doesn't happen, they're very small. Otherwise we'd be driven to immediately go eat something because what does insulin do? It makes us hungry.
I've used diet soda to postpone eating, so I doubt it has much of an insulin effect, if any.
Now, granted, I wish they'd stop using aspartame, but I hate painting all horses the same color.
Last edited by Nancy LC : Sat, Feb-09-13 at 12:30.
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