Thought you were "doing the right thing" by drinking diet soda instead of the usual corn-syrup sludge that makes up theprimary source of caloriesfor Americans? Well, sorry, you are still going to become obese and die of diabetes and cancer, soon. Diet soda -- and god only knows what is actually in Diet Soda -- has been proven to make you just as fat and miserable as the non-diet variety. Turns out that drinking several gallons of bubbly chemical poison every day is bad for you, no matter if the corn syrup has been removed by radiation chemicals or not!
They found that diet soda drinkers' waists grew 70 percent more than non-drinkers. Specifically, drinking two or more diet sodas a day busted belt sizes five times more than people who avoided the stuff entirely.
And as waist size grows, so do health risks - including diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and other chronic conditions.
The researchers suggest "water" -- if it's not radioactive or contaminated by the faddish new natural gas industry poison of "fracking" -- is a safe alternative to the four-hundred brands of Wonka's fizzy lifting drink/pesticide, but how is that even American, to drink something that doesn't come in a two-liter bottle with a coupon on the label to seeTransformers XII: The Final Dildofor half-off, with the purchase of yet another 72-ounce soda pop? [ CBS News ]
Diet Soda Also Making Americans Obese & Diabetic
Ah, didn't discover UC until college. The beer balls were totally in effect, though. I also remember a particular frat obtaining "Beer"...literally, that's all the cans said...for a party called "Cheap Domestic Beer Night" (never understood how that was substantively from other frat parties). Regardless, cheers to the cheap-ass beers of upstate. *Currently wishing I hadn't exhausted my supply of delicious Southern Tier yesterday.
Yes, we will.