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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 3 May 2019

      Oh look it's Bash Diet Coke day again What this study DID show = kids who drink artificial sweeteners also eat more sugar/calories What this study DIDN'T show = Diet Coke makes you eat more This is total nonsensepic.twitter.com/lLj4z5z1oz

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 3 May 2019

      Study is here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijpo.12535?referrer_access_token=JUeBJe015ozBA4Fx_ZmdvIta6bR2k8jH0KrdpFOxC66Zlhup1r9HKM31ZXvoCNCtlCGKBV2MHvbjwvEhZa0aAger1VqifMAxLNhnCOPHfOvAm62wj68xzMW9kCVAmiJC7Pz-33YLVIa2PpQkOX0wDg%3D%3D …

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 3 May 2019

      This is basically yet another very problematic epidemiology study that has shown that people who drink artificial sweeteners are less healthy than people who don't

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 3 May 2019

      I've written about this before several times: https://medium.com/the-method/diet-drinks-arent-killing-you-54c9e5d06c30 … https://medium.com/the-method/stop-freaking-out-about-artificial-sweeteners-9a53caf9d0e5 … https://medium.com/@gidmk/artificial-sweeteners-arent-killing-us-all-2730f7ad86c0 …https://medium.com/@gidmk/artificial-sweeteners-arent-dangerous-a06c28385f7c …

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    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 3 May 2019

      In this new study, the researchers basically took a large sample of kids, asked them to recall what they ate in the last 24 hours, and then compared them in terms of their beverage intake

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    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 3 May 2019

      They put kids into 4 groups: 1. Water 2. Artificially sweetened drinks (i.e. Diet Coke) 3. Sugar sweetened drinks (i.e. Coke) 4. 2+3

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    7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 3 May 2019

      They found that kids who drank diet drinks ate more calories than kids who only drank water They also found that kids who drank any sugary drinks consumed far more calories than either of those groupspic.twitter.com/uFy2HQ1thI

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    8. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 3 May 2019

      So water was best, but diet soft drinks were MUCH better than sugary ones Not exactly what the headlines imply so far

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    9. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 3 May 2019

      But then another wrinkle - this was an observational (cross-sectional) study What this means is that the researchers took one time-point, asked the kids questions, and based all of their results on that

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 3 May 2019

      The problem is that there is no way to determine causality from a study like this Maybe Diet Coke causes kids to eat more Maybe kids who eat more tend to drink more Diet Coke Maybe kids who are poor tend to both eat more AND drink more Diet Cokepic.twitter.com/ho4S1ourNZ

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        2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 3 May 2019

          And at least one of these things is true, because kids who drank more artificial sweeteners in this study were poorer on average than kids who only drank water

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 3 May 2019

          Also, in studies like this, you usually control for dozens of factors There are literally hundreds of things that can influence complex associations like beverage drinking and obesity In this study? They controlled for 5

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        4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 3 May 2019

          As I've said before; we can control for the things we know about, but we can't control for things we don't know or don't measure In this study, that included MOST THINGSpic.twitter.com/UVfTKLpTIX

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        5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 3 May 2019

          The only thing we can say from this study is that kids who drink more diet coke are also unhealthier than kids who drink only water WHAT A FUCKING SURPRISE

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        6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 3 May 2019

          Maybe they're drinking Diet Coke BECAUSE they're unhealthy It's entirely possible - even likely - that this is the case

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        7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 3 May 2019

          And even more than that, it's worth remembering that Diet Coke usually REPLACES something If these kids weren't drinking Diet Coke, they'd probably be drinking...Cokepic.twitter.com/8b13x4Bi4K

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        8. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 3 May 2019

          Guess what was worse for kids IN THIS STUDY than Diet Coke? Coke This is also unsurprising

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        9. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 3 May 2019

          Too much sugar is bad for you It's probably bad for kids as well It seems, based on the evidence so far, that replacing sugar with artificial sweeteners is at the least safe if not necessarily effective

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        10. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 3 May 2019

          Will artificial sweeteners make you lose weight? Maybe. Maybe not Will they make you (or your kids) GAIN weight? Probably not, especially if they're REPLACING sugar

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