Is soda bad for your brain? (And is diet soda worse?)

[Northerner]

Excess sugar -- especially the fructose in sugary drinks -- might damage your brain, new research suggests. Researchers found that people who drink sugary beverages frequently are more likely to have poorer memory, smaller overall brain volume, and a significantly smaller hippocampus. A follow-up study found that people who drank diet soda daily were almost three times as likely to develop stroke and dementia when compared to those who did not.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170420162254.htm

 

[Amigo]

Excess sugar -- especially the fructose in sugary drinks -- might damage your brain, new research suggests. Researchers found that people who drink sugary beverages frequently are more likely to have poorer memory, smaller overall brain volume, and a significantly smaller hippocampus. A follow-up study found that people who drank diet soda daily were almost three times as likely to develop stroke and dementia when compared to those who did not.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170420162254.htm

Dear gawd northie, at this rate I won't dare eat or drink anything for fear of damaging a vital organ and I'm also a failure for not going out on a bike! 😱

 

[Northerner]

Dear gawd northie, at this rate I won't dare eat or drink anything for fear of damaging a vital organ and I'm also a failure for not going out on a bike! 😱

Personally, I think there's too much spurious and tenuous research going on! 🙄 They should issue a league table of 'things that are bad/good for you' and then we could see where things like this rank! 🙂

 

[Amigo]

Personally, I think there's too much spurious and tenuous research going on! 🙄 They should issue a league table of 'things that are bad/good for you' and then we could see where things like this rank! 🙂

Absolutely agree. I'd take it with a pinch of salt if it wasn't so bad for me! 🙄

 

[Northerner]

Absolutely agree. I'd take it with a pinch of salt if it wasn't so bad for me! 🙄

#23 on the list...😉 😱

 

[trophywench]

DO stop stressing, Amigo dear. Your blood glucose is likely to soar and cause your legs to drop off etc.

Yrs etc

A Caring Friend

 

[mikeyB]

Mind you, this info comes from the Framingham Heart Study, which is world renowned, and enormous. That said, it is largely to blame for the handing out statins like dolly mixture.🙄

 

[Amigo]

DO stop stressing, Amigo dear. Your blood glucose is likely to soar and cause your legs to drop off etc.

Yrs etc

A Caring Friend

Me stress about this Jenny? Not a chance! I couldn't give a rat's bum about research like this because it's yet another precautionary warning about everything we eat, drink and do that might lead to premature death, internal devastation or dementia. A bit like 'don't eat eggs, butter or fats at all and keep the carbs up!' Remember that piece of advice which no doubt originated from similar research

 

[mikeyB]

I agree, Amigo, who cares? We've all got to die of something, and some of us have a variety of options already without worrying about Diet Coke.🙄

 

[Matt Cycle]

Yep, I'm going to carry on having diet drinks and keep on living until in the words of Lemmy I'm killed by death.

 

[trophywench]

Me stress about this Jenny? Not a chance! I couldn't give a rat's bum about research like this because it's yet another precautionary warning about everything we eat, drink and do that might lead to premature death, internal devastation or dementia. A bit like 'don't eat eggs, butter or fats at all and keep the carbs up!' Remember that piece of advice which no doubt originated from similar research

Oh I don't think it's necessary to eat or drink anything, or indeed stop eating it, in order to die. My understanding is that the act of being born carries a death sentence automatically!

I WAS actually joking!

Like you - I'll carry on eating and drinking what I like to eat and drink. Personally though I've not drunk soda hardly ever, being as I'm English and don't drink whisky and soda. It is nice in 'full fat' orange squash though - fizzy but not too sweet. Mom used to buy a soda syphon every week cos we always had a bottle of squash, it was cheaper than pop, and no rush to drink it before it went flat ! (The ration was one large bottle of pop a week between the two of us - she never ever overfed us sugar - and carried on making the wartime cake recipes which used eg 'desecrated' coconut instead of sugar; carrot cake etc. Mind you - jam sandwiches sometimes LOL)

I have an occasional glass of Diet pop once in a while, and only last month I had a slimline tonic in my gin. If that's enough to give a person Alzheimer's then I'm stuffed. The only person I know at the moment with it is Pete's cousin's husband - and I rather think Mick has drunk a lot more beer (esp Home Brew - he and Pete jointly brewed some Guinness this once and it demonstrated it's liveliness all over our Noreen's garage!) than he ever has, pop! Think they concluded it had a bit too much yeast ......

 

[Ditto]

Couldn't afford it when we were kids, didn't want it once grown up, nasty yucky stuff, rotting your teeth. Empty calories and obviously bad for you, don't need a report to tell us but some people will need the report, so I think all the advice is a good thing even if it does make us roll our eyes. 🙂

 

[chaoticcar]

Jenny love the story about the home made Guiness.My dad used to make a stout that was the nearest to Guiness that you would ever get,it tasted great but if you wanted to drink it a little early it tended to be a bit gassy so my husband decided to open a pint bottle over the bath so that if any spilt it wouldn't cause a problem .When it started to froth up he put his mouth round the neck of the bottle but found that he couldn't swallow quickly enough and yet didn't want to waste the stout so his eyes started to pop and I was certain it would come out of his ears !!He gave up when it came down his nose and I collapsed laughing onto the bathroom floor .Dad died 30 years ago ,I still have the recipe for his stout but no one has made it since perhaps I will ask one of my son's or grand children to have a go now that you have reminded me about it
CAROL

 

[Vicsetter]

I read further on and the guy in charge said that diabetics drank diet soda but the study didn't show whether the diet soda caused the diabetes or not, It is just another 'don't eat this or that study' that means nothing.