April 3, 2019 Jennifer Abbasi JAMA. Published online April 3, 2019. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.2123 Around 2 decades ago, researchers asked tens of thousands of participants in the Women’s Health Initiative study how often they consumed artificially sweetened beverages over the past 3 months. Recently, they looked at how the diet sodas and fruit drinks the women drank […]
Peter Russell October 24, 2016 Drinking more than 2 soft drinks a day doubles the risk of developing two types of diabetes, a study in the European Journal of Endocrinology has found. Researchers say this applies to soft drinks that are artificially sweetened as well as those containing sugar. Types of Diabetes Type 2 diabetes […]
What Diet Soda Does to Belly Fat March 17, 2015 More evidence that diet soda contributes to weight gain, not weight loss A new study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society found that people who drank diet soda gained almost triple the abdominal fat over nine years as those who didn’t drink […]