Is Soda Bad for Your Brain & And Is Diet Soda Worse

(And Is Diet Soda Worse?) "It was somewhat surprising that diet soda consumption led to these outcomes," says Pase, noting that while prior studies have linked diet soda intake to stroke risk, the link with dementia was not previously known. Both sugary and diet drinks correlated with accelerated brain agingAmericans love sugar. Diabetics, as a group, drink more diet soda on average, as a way to limit their sugar consumption, and some of the correlation between diet soda intake and dementia may be due to diabetes, as well as other vascular risk factors. However, they found that people who drank at least one diet soda per day were almost three times as likely to develop stroke and dementia.

Soda Tax Will Include Diet Products Because Equity, Say Mayor and Councilmembers

"Again, though: what about pizza, birthday cakes, Halloween candy?…We're choosing [to tax] beverages over pizza and donuts? To make sure that this soda tax targets both groups and not just the former—which would be super-duper regressive—the revised proposal also taxes diet beverages. Like cigarette taxes, the soda tax is designed to discourage regular consumption of a product that causes obesity and a host of other health problems. Ryan Hopkins, owner of Boss Burgers in White Center, has been critical of the soda tax, going so far as to put up a sign reading "HEY MR MAYOR $5 SODAS? A study of the effects of a similar soda tax in poor neighborhoods in Berkeley over one year found a significant decrease in pop consumption and increase in water consumption.



The part that is surprising involved the potential effects of diet drinks on the brain. You may have heard about results from a pair of studies that hit earlier this month about the effects of sugary and diet drinks on the brain. Why might diet sodas contribute to these risks? Different artificial sweeteners in diet drinks have different effects, and there's debate about which causes what. Diet sodas could imbalance the bacterial jungle in our guts—the microbiome—causing unpredictable results.


collected by :Lucy William