Diet Soda Increases Risk of Diabetes

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Aspartame continues to becontraindicated but this item is the most compelling argument that I have seen.  In the past I have posted that there is asolution if we must drink sweetened water.
It consists of sufficient stevia, a grain of sucrose to eliminate any stevia after taste and sufficient glucose to provide safe energy.  Otherwise,slightly impure glucose will work fine with a bit of stevia.
Recall that five percent ofsweetening in Japanis Stevia and that is huge, so we are not lacking the knowhow.  All the above is natural and safe and with avast pedigree.
In the real world, the sugarlobby will lose several percentage points of its market and we will lose theprimary driver underlying childhood obesity in particular.  How do you want to fix this?
The first American beveragecompany that gets on this band wagon is going to decimate its rivals.  This is a true new coke formula.  The key though is to not be afraid to sell steviasweetened glucose as an energy drink which is why most drink the stuff.
Glucose is safe simply because itpasses directly into your bloodstream for direct energy.  And anyone breaking a sweat needs an easily availablesource of energy.
Study: Diet Soda Increases the Risk of Diabetes. Why Do We Still DrinkThis Stuff?

 Lylah M. Alphonse,
http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/study-diet-soda-increases-risk-diabetes-why-still-192600358.html
Yet another study confirms what people have been saying for ages: Stop drinkingdiet soda. Like, right now. Drinking just one 12-ounce can of an artificiallysweetened fizzy drink per week can increase your risk of Type 2 diabetes by 33 percent, French researchers found. And given thatmost people don't stop at a single weekly serving, your real risk for diabetes couldactually be much higher.

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The study, which was announcedThursday and will be published in the American Journal of ClinicalNutrition, was conducted by France's National Institute of Health and MedicalResearch and covered 66,118 middle-aged women whose dietary habits and healthwere tracked from 1993 to 2007.

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The results were unexpected. Though it's well-known that people who consumea lot of sugar are more likely to develop diabetes, the researchers found thatparticipants who drank "light" or "diet" soft drinks had ahigher risk of developing Type 2 diabetes than those who drank regular,sugar-filled sodas. Those who drank 100 percent natural squeezed fruit juicesinstead had no additional risk.
Women who choose artificially flavored soft drinks usually drink twice as many of them as women who choose regular soda or juice—2.8 glasses per week compared to 1.6 glasses. "Yet when an equal quantity is consumed, the risk of contracting diabetes is higher for 'light' or 'diet' drinks than for 'non-light' or 'non-diet' drinks," the researchers, epidemiologists Francoise Clavel-Chapelon and Guy Fagherazzi, said in a statement. Women who drank up to 500 milliliters (about 12 ounces) of artificially sweetened beverages per week were 33 percent more likely to develop the disease, and women who drank about 600 milliliters (about 20 ounces) per week had a 66 percent increase in risk.Drinking sweetened beverages increases the risk of becoming overweight,which is itself a risk factor in developing diabetes. But the study didn't findthat the results were the same even among overweight women. So how canartificially sweetened drinks be making the problem worse if they're fat- andcalorie-free?
"With respect, in particular, to 'light' or 'diet' drinks, therelationship with diabetes can be explained partially by a greater craving forsugar in general by female consumers of this type of soft drink," theresearchers explained. "Furthermore, aspartame, one of the main artificialsweeteners used today, causes an increase in glycaemia and consequently arise in the insulin level in comparison to that produced by sucrose."
Translation: Drinking artificially sweetened drinks makes you craveother sweet things (hello, chocolate!). And your body reacts to aspartame—also known asNutraSweet and Equal—much in the same way that it reacts to plain old sugar.
According to the AmericanDiabetes Association, about 25.8 million children and adults in the United States have diabetes—about 8.3 percent of the population. The disease is the leading cause of new cases of blindness in people age 20 and older, and can also cause heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, kidney disease, and damage to the nervous system. Type2 diabetes—which can be controlled by diet and exercise rather than a dailyinsulin injection—is the most common form of diabetes in the United States.
The study's authors cautioned that more research was needed in order toprove a true causal link between diet sodas and Type 2 diabetes."Information on beverage consumption was not updated during the follow-up,and dietary habits may have changed over time," they admitted in theirreport. "We cannot rule out that factors other than ASB [artificiallysweetened beverages] are responsible for the association with diabetes."