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J OEL F UHRMAN , MD
Diet soda linked to diabetes risk
It is widely known that
sugar-sweetened beverages
promote weight gain and type-
2 diabetes. However, artificial-
ly sweetened beverages are
regarded by many as safe alter-
natives that will satisfy sweet
cravings while preventing the
dangerous surge in blood glu-
cose from their sugar-sweet-
ened counterparts, thereby cir-
cumventing the weight gain
and associated increase in dia-
betes risk.
Are people who drink diet
soda less likely to end up with
diabetes?
The research says no.
A French study following
66,118 women for 14 years
uncovered strong trends of
increased diabetes risk in
women who consumed greater
amounts of either sugar-sweet-
ened or artificially sweetened
beverages; for each type of
beverage, as consumption
increased, risk increased.
The authors note that this
effect was only partly depend-
ent on body mass index (BMI);
that means that it wasn’t just
that overweight people were
the ones drinking the diet soda
and getting diabetes.
Women who drank at least
one 20-ounce diet soda per
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week had a risk more than dou-
ble (a 121 percent increase in
risk) that of women who did
not consume any sweetened
beverages. High consumers of
sugar-sweetened beverages,
who drank 12 ounces per week
or more, had a 34 percent
increase in diabetes risk.
Since a major purpose of
artificial sweeteners is to avoid
calorie load, it seems counter-
intuitive, but artificial sweeten-
ers have been associated with
weight gain in several (though
not all) observational studies.
For example, in the Multi-
Ethnic
Study
of
Atherosclerosis
(MESA),
drinking diet soda at least once
daily was associated with high
waist circumference and a 67
percent greater risk of type-2
diabetes seven years later.
Similarly, in the San Antonio
Heart Study, normal weight
subjects who consumed 21 or
more artificially sweetened
beverages per week almost
doubled (93 percent increase)
their risk of overweight or obe-
sity eight years later.
How might artificial sweet-
eners promote weight gain?
First, simply because they
taste sweet, artificial sweeten-
ers promote desire for and
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The safety of many of these
artificial sweeteners has been
questioned; most are relatively
new compounds, and their
long-term health effects are
still uncertain.
These are not natural, whole
foods, so it is wise to avoid
them. Evidence suggests that
they are not helpful for weight
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dependence on excessively
sweet tastes. These excessively
sweet tastes are unnatural, hun-
dreds or thousands of times
sweeter than table sugar, which
in itself is unnaturally sweet.
Throughout human history,
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to the more subtle, naturally
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Some research has suggested
that increased use of artificial
sweeteners indeed increases
appetite or sweet cravings.
There is also evidence that
consuming artificially sweet-
ened beverages between meals
(in the absence of calories)
increases appetite and food
consumption during the next
meal.
Another potential explana-
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“informed overcompensation.”
For example, perceiving that
she has “saved” calories by
drinking a diet soda with her
dinner, a woman decides to
order dessert.
Interestingly, it has been
shown that knowingly (but not
unknowingly) consuming arti-
ficially sweetened foods led to
overcompensation
with
increased caloric intake.
Another interesting explana-
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tion from the sweetness and
calorie load of previous meals
in order to predict calorie load
from the level of sweetness in
future meals.
Artificially sweeteners may
“uncouple” sweetness and
calories, impairing normal
mechanisms that regulate ener-
gy balance. There is evidence
for this impaired energy bal-
ance with several artificial
sweeteners in rats.
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