https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...troke-w53h3psjt

True. They also might want to look a little closer at what they're claiming here:



Yes, I realize the rationale behind calling a food heart healthy is that it is either low fat, has no animal fat/no cholesterol, or contains fiber.

But what else do all of those foods have in common? Some degree of carbs, some of them quite a few carbs.

To me this is quite a stretch, but it does rely on the assumption that fats are the baddy-bad, carbs are helpful, while telling them to be careful about real sugar (pure carbs).

We know that those most likely to use diet drinks are the ones who are struggling to lose weight, and of course weight is another factor in the incidence of strokes.

To me it looks like they're stretching and twisting the logic into a pretzel (also carby) in a desperate attempt to not give up on the whole cholesterol hypothesis.

I suspect that physicians of the late 19th century who were desperately trying hold onto the idea that bloodletting was the best way to cure all ills put that treatment through the same sort of pretzel logic:

"We've been doing this for thousands of years, and it's worked! Ok, so a lot of our patients died anyway, but it wasn't because we were bleeding them - it was because we didn't bleed them often enough. Or didn't start the bleeding early enough in their illness. Or they just had so much bad blood that it was impossible for us to remove enough. We followed well established medical protocols, so our treatment was NOT at fault!"


[ETA: I don't know why every paragraph ends up several lines apart when I post on ALC forums - it doesn't do that anyplace else on the internet. I don't know if I messed up something in settings or what.)

The forum software is old and sometimes doesn't work the way it should with newer browsers, especially mobile. If you're using the Advanced Editor feature, try turning it off .. it could be competing with your browser's formatting, resulting in that extra line space.

From your control panel (User CP), select Edit Options on the left. Scroll down to Miscellaneous Options .. in the Message Editor Interface box, select Standard Editor, then Save Changes.

Hopefully that will help


Doreen

Thank you!

I'm posting from a desktop, but firefox does frequent programming updates.

Let's see changing that setting has helped...

ETA: Whoo-hoo! It worked! Thank you again!

I think that is exactly what it is. And they have so much invested with statins. How can they possibly admit what they might have been doing all this time? They're going to drag it out the same way tobacco did.

Another study:



This was 'correlation not causation' as usual, but it sounds as if they did try to exclude other behavior as risk factors.

https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj-2022-071204

I've tried to avoid these for many years. Aspartame in particular after reading a book on excitoxins and the brain. And I observed that my once daily Diet Coke habit actually made me more depressed. Which you'd think would make it easier to quit, wouldn't you? No. It was extremely difficult but I think I've kicked it for good now as it's been a while.

I became wary of aspartame when I read the phenylalanine warning on the packages. Granted, it was for people whose brains can't process it as much as as usual, but it's also a LOT of the substance when it's used in a piece of chewing gum.

I suppose they think drinking TAB all day is what caused Karen Carpenter's heart to fail. People drink diet soda for a reason, so it is important to look at everything they consume, don't consume, or barf up.

Once we were on vacation and my SIL had brought two types of icecream - one real and the other artificially sweetened (for herself). My 7-yr old nephew wanted the flavour that contained AS, not the real vanilla, so she gave him one scoop. He went from being himself, the sweetest little boy ever, to 35 minutes later being grumpy, screaming and stabbing the sofa with a ball point pen with nothing to trigger such a reaction other than the fake sugar.

I do occasionally have a diet coke, but limit myself to one serving of aspartame a day.