How useful diet soft drinks?

Sugar - sweet poison! From the words of Raisa Zakharovna, the heroine of the comedy "Love and Doves" is well known to all Soviet men and women, and only from them, and the current generation of compatriots. Unfortunately, in these words there is a grain of truth, which led to the appearance on the shelves of many "diet" drinks.

Advertising transparent hints that popular drinks with the prefix "diet" and "light" - almost a panacea for pesky calories, lose weight, and along with accompanying heart ailments and diabetes. But is it really so dear to our health "spool" in a bright tin jar?

A few days ago the British newspaper «Daily Mail» tell their readers about the sensational results of research conducted in the framework of the "Women's Health Initiative» (Women's Health Initiative). The main conclusion of experts - diet soft drinks can cause heart problems and diabetes in older women.

Representatives of this category is understandably more concerned about others with their health and try to stick to diets. But it turned out that women aged who daily drink two or more servings of diet drinks, are more likely to collide with high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease.

Sorry for the cliche, but "statistics" It shows us that lovers only two cups of "useful" drink 50% more likely to suffer from cardiovascular disease. They are 30% more likely to become victims of heart attacks and strokes than women who consume moderate amounts of diet soft drinks or abandoned them altogether.

At the initial stage researchers interviewed 60,000 women, whose average age was 60-65 years, how much calorie and diet soft drinks drank respondents on average over the past three months. In a survey of women were divided into three groups. Those who drank two or more "drink", noted as "heavy users".

The following interview, during which the researchers tried to find out whether women faced in the last period with vascular diseases, including thrombosis, heart attacks and strokes, took almost a decade. It was found that "heavy users" have suffered more than others. By making these findings, the researchers took into account other factors: lifestyle, physical activity and body mass index.

Impact of health drinks not studied for the first time. Previous studies have shown that cola, diet as well as usual, can lead to reduced bone density.

It may seem that the total number of sold soft drinks diet is not so great as to "sound the alarm". However, a study conducted by the Center for Disease Control (Centers for Disease Control) in 2009, revealed that the joy of producers diet drinks daily drink one in five Americans, more than half of them did not limit himself to two cups.

Good health!

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