A new study suggests that drinking diet sodas increases your risk of metabolic syndrome by 35%. Metabolic syndrome is the collection of risk factors for heart disease and diabetes that include abdominal obesity, high cholesterol, high blood glucose levels and elevated blood pressure.
Doesn’t that sound appetizing?
Here’s my conundrum: I quit drinking regular soft drinks because they were bad for me. All the sugar, yeah yeah whatever. I started drinking diet drinks because they were the lesser of two evils and because I cannot drink something as tasteless as water all the time. Now, I guess I need to stop drinking soft drinks all together. Being diabetic with a big gut is not how imagined myself in five years. Why can’t things that make us healthy also be good tasting? Why couldn’t I have been one of those psychos who really loves healthy food and exercise instead of computers and Guitar Hero? Who knows.
3 Comments
February 11, 2008 at 8:27 pm
oh no! what’s a caffeine lover to do?!?
February 11, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Go for tea – a plethora of varieties (both hot and cold) and low in calories. And for most of them, they’re actually good for you.
February 12, 2008 at 8:13 pm
I propose an alternative title for this entry: Stuck between a rock and a soft drink.
Soft instead of hard. Get it? Man am I clever.