This sort of bums me out…
Millions of people reach for an afternoon diet soda as a pick-me-up to make it through the rest of the day. But new research suggests sodas and other sugary drinks — especially artificially sweetened ones — could be related to depression.
According to the research, which will be officially released at the American Academy of Neurology’s annual meeting in mid-March, people who drink four cans or more of soda daily are about 30 percent more likely to be diagnosed with depression than people who don’t drink soda. Coffee drinkers are about 10 percent less likely to develop depression than people who don’t drink coffee.
via Diet Soda Linked to Depression in NIH Study – US News and World Report.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackMaybe they’re depressed because they’re fat…
But which is cause and which is effect? Maybe depressed people like diet soda.
Maybe depressed people feel happier with diet soda, and actually ARE happier drinking diet soda, hence they do just that….
Studies like this are worthless. Presenting two statistics with no causal relationship is not valuable, unless you are a reporting seeking a cheap headline…
Man, I need a drink… a diet drink….
Er…..
“unless you are a reporter”
Stupid diet-soda-addled brain….
Oh, it’s diet soda. Stupid diet-soda-addled brain…
If this is like most academic research today, it was conducted with the result in mind. I have been a heavy diet soda drinker for 20 years (5-8 cans a day). 6 weeks ago I quit cold turkey. I switched to unsweetened tea. There has been zero change in my demeaneor, mood, or memory (which is another thing they say is affected by artificial sweeteners). The only thing the change affected is my sweet tooth, which has declined.
Coffee drinkers rule!
Join the coffee achievers!
I put Splenda(TM) in my coffee, so even there I suppose I’m screwed…
I tried splenda once, tasted like glass cleaner to me.
And yeah, I’ve consumed a lot of glass cleaner so I should know….
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