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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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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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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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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Guess what was worse for kids IN THIS STUDY than Diet Coke? Coke This is also unsurprising
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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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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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Do vaccines other than MMR cause autism?
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Nope. No vaccines do
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