Coca Cola Diet for Diabetes Patients

20 April 2011 735 views No Comment

Renowned designer Karl Lagerfeld has managed to reduce body weight by eating a diet Coke. Only, this one soft drinks are often touted to increase the risk of obesity and diabetes. In fact, Diet Coke was good for people with diabetes. How come?

Currently you can enjoy a Diet Coke without feeling guilty. Because the artificial sweetener used in soft drinks are “not increase the risk of obesity and diabetes.” If the ad campaign a number of benefits from the Coca Cola Diet, current research has found other facts.

Regular soda and sugary drinks with artificial sweeteners such as coffee or tea is suppose to increase the risk of someone suffering from diabetes. But researchers at Harvard University said it was not true. Instead replace sugary drinks with diet versions seem to be a healthy alternative.

Before the study, many people suggest that drinking diet soda regularly will probably have a higher risk of diabetes than those who do not drink artificial sweeteners.

But the latest study recently showed results more from the same drinks for diet soda drinkers and people with diabetes, including obesity problem.

Dr Hu and colleagues analyzed data from more than 40 thousand people who attended between 1986 and 2006. During this period they were asked about the medical status and dietary habits, including consumption of beverages.

Approximately 7 percent of the people in the study reported undiagnosed diabetes. Men who consume sweet drinks most of the natural sugar in one day, an average of 16 percent more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes, than men who did not drink these beverages. These factors are mainly caused by the soda and other carbonated beverages.

Eating non-carbonated drinks with sugar-sweet fruit taste like lemonade is not associated with high risk of suffering from diabetes.

Men who drink a lot of diet soda and other diet drinks do not close the possibility to suffer from diabetes. But once the man checked weight, blood pressure and cholesterol counts, their drinks are not associated with risk of diabetes.

Drinking coffee every day, both regular and decaf, had a lower risk of diabetes, possibly because the antioxidant or vitamin or mineral in the coffee.

Dr Brown, who has studied artificial sweetener but is not involved in the study, adding that so far there are still some health issues about artificial sweeteners. In fact, they have proved nothing.

But of course reduce the consumption of sugar drinks sweet in any way (including substitution with diet drinks) is a good thing.