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Readers’ Poll
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An analysis of 10 years of data from the Framingham Heart Study reveals that middle-aged participants who drank one or more sodas daily – regular or diet – were twice as likely as non-soda drinkers to develop a set of risk factors for heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Known as metabolic syndrome, the risk factors include abdominal obesity and high levels of blood sugar and LDL, or “bad,” cholesterol.
The study’s author, however, points out that the findings don’t suggest soda directly causes metabolic syndrome, but merely an association between the two. Nutritionists and physicians who treat diabetes stress that diet soda is far better for their patients than regular soda.
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