Attention Diet Soda Drinkers!

As some of you know, I'm currently at the 2011 Nursing Symposium in Nashville, TN.  I was at a lecture on strokes in women and thought you might find this new tidbit interesting.  If you drink diet soda, you are 48% more likely to suffer from a stroke.  Now for all of you who are going to ask what half of the nurses in the audience asked immediately, here are some facts about the study:

Says who:  Hannah Gardener, an epidemiologist at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
How big was the study:  2,564 people
When was it done:  It was a 9 year research project, with findings reported in 2011
Are there any other studies that confirm this:  No, but they're working on it

Of the 2,564 people in this study, 559 vascular events occurred.  You can read the article yourself, but the researcher does say they did not expect this outcome.  I'm sure once another trial comes out to confirm this stat to give it some more uumpph that more publicity will follow.  But I'm sure Pepsi and Coke will pay a lot of money to make sure that doesn't happen! 

Can Diet Soda Boost Your Stroke Risk?

So for those of you that drink diet soda daily, every other day, multiple times a day, etc ... please stop!  Also, have you checked out the ingredient list?  Woooowweee, try and pronounce some of that stuff!  It's not natural by any means.  It contains aspartame (a neurotoxin) which is why it tastes so sweet, but one of its side effects (among 12,938,179,283 others) is increased hunger.  And to reference a previous article that was Kleblogged, "take out the sugar and add in carcinogenic artificial sweeteners, combined with the artificial flavors and colors that are in all sodas, and you have a recipe for Tumor in a Can."

If you're interested, here are more places you can go with information on aspartame:

http://www.dorway.com Experts on Aspartame, government records, UPI and CDC investigations, books by physicians, protest of National Soft Drink Assn, Class Action, support groups, etc.

http://www.sunsentpress.com Books by H. J. Roberts, M.D. including Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, medical text on global plague

http://www.ana-jana.org Russell Blaylock, M.D., neurosurgeon, book, Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills on aspartame and MSG and his new book on how to get well, Health & Nutrition Secrets To Save Your Life.

(taken from: http://www.life-enthusiast.com/news/s_aspartame2.htm)