Diet Soda
I recently had to read an article for my psychology class about diet soda and whether it’s actually better for you or not. I don’t know about you, but I know that I have always thought that drinking diet soda is healthier than normal soda, but I guess I have been wrong and so has the majority of the world. The article is very interesting and I never knew that diet soda increases your risk of a stroke. Well it actually does. It increases your chance of a stroke by 48 percent. An experiment was taken over 9.3 years with 2,564 participants during this time 559 suffered a vascular event, such as an ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke, both of which is caused by the rupture of a weakened blood vessel. America is already having enough health issues and now people who think they are being healthy by drinking diet sodas are really just increasing there risk of having a stoke by a significant amount. This is absolutely terrible! I just thought I would let everyone know that diet soda is not better for you! Besides regular soda taste better anyways. You should read this article
http://www.aolhealth.com/2011/02/09/diet-soda-stroke-risk
Clark,
ReplyDeleteI'm not really a soda drinker. I like juice, tea, milk, and water. I'm not saying that I hate soda, 'cause I do like a soda every now and then, but I defanitely don't like diet soda's. I just don't like the way they taste. Maybe the reason why they taste so crappy is because they really aren't good for you! Anyway, I'm glad you put this out there, because I imagine there are a lot of people who drink diet soda's because they THINK that they are good for them.