Diet Sodas Linked to Diabetes

Did you know that in 2009, consumers of diet soda drank over 43 billion cans and bottles?
This total is just for diet drinks; it doesn’t count all the regular sodas that were consumed too. If you’ve been reading my articles for awhile, you already know how toxic I think sodas are whether they are diet or regular versions. Are soda drinkers poisoning themselves?

I just read an article by Dr. Al Sears (www.alsearsmd.com). He’s been researching the latest studies on diabetes. He shared that one recent study says (point blank) that if you drink diet soda every day, you’re 67 percent more likely to develop diabetes.¹

Did you know drinking diet soda leads to diabetes? Most of us would probably assume that it is regular coke that is the biggest culprit and that “diet coke” isn’t that lethal.

Not too surprising, the quantity of diet soda you drink impacts your odds also. The study showed that those who drank the most diet soda had a 34 percent greater risk than those who drank the least diet soda.² That puts us up into the “almost guaranteed” range!

Even the famous Framingham Heart Study (http://www.framinghamheartstudy.org) found that people who drink more than one diet soda a day have a 56 percent increased chance for developing the diabetic metabolic syndrome – that’s the group of risks that give you a greater chance for diabetes, as well as coronary artery disease and stroke.³

For every ONE ounce of soda, it takes 32 times the same amount of 9.5 pH water to neutralize the pH to a healthy range. I have that demo on my Kangen water site at www.501Advantages.com under the video tab. It is shocking to realize how easy it is to undermine a whole day of well-intentioned water drinking with just one or two ounces of soda (yes, any kind of carbonated soda; they were using lemon-lime in the demo).

Sodas make your body acidic-based. Many chronic and life threatening diseases thrive in an acidic environment. Once you decide to find ways to keep your body mildly alkaline, you are much less likely to have incidences of serious illness. Mildly alkaline is 7.2-7.4 pH.

Blood type matters too. I’m a Type O+ and that makes me even more susceptible to acidity because my Type O blood is naturally more acidic than the other types. Drinking soda, coffee or consuming acidic fruits, can potentially take a person’s health down when they don’t realize what they are doing. Another unintentional side effect is in how our body brings it’s pH back up to a healthy level; it borrows calcium to elevate pH from our bones!

Those people you know who are drinking the Big Gulps are turning their bodies into acid-rich petri dishes where illness and disease can grow and wreak havoc on their bodies. Diet coke drinkers can now add to the potential threat of an overly acidic body, the development of life-changing diabetes. This is bad news for our friends who are staunch soda drinkers.

Sources:
1 Nettleton, J.A., Lutsey, P.L., Wang, Y., Lima, J.A., Michos, E.D., Jacobs, D.R. Jr., "Diet soda intake and risk of incident metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA),” Diabetes Care Apr 2009; 32(4): 688-94
2 Lutsey, Pamela L., Steffen, Lyn M., Stevens, June, "Dietary Intake and the Development of the Metabolic Syndrome. The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study," CIRCULATION AHA Jan 2008; 107.716159
3 Dhingra R, Sullivan, et al, “Soft drink consumption and risk of developing cardiometabolic risk factors and the metabolic syndrome in middle-aged adults in the community,” Circulation 2007; 116:480–488
4 Gregersen S, Jeppesen PB, Holst JJ, Hermansen K., "Antihyperglycemic effects of stevioside in type 2 diabetic subjects," Metabolism Jan. 2004; 53(1):73-6