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"Honestly, I thought that diet soda would be marginally better compared to regular soda in terms of health," said the author Susan Swithers. "But in reality it has a counterintuitive effect...We've gotten to a place where it is normal to drink diet soda because people have the false impression that it is healthier than indulging in a regular soda. But research is now very clear that we need to also be mindful of how much fake sugar they are consuming."The researchers wrote:
"The negative impact of consuming sugar-sweetened beverages on weight and other health outcomes has been increasingly recognized; therefore, many people have turned to high-intensity sweeteners like aspartame, sucralose, and saccharin as a way to reduce the risk of these consequences. However, accumulating evidence suggests that frequent consumers of these sugar substitutes may also be at increased risk of excessive weight gain, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease."As a result, they set out to discuss the previous findings and attempt to explain how diet soda does serious damage to the body.
Comment: Christopher Duntsch is likely a psychopath. In a system where doctors and hospitals can kill and maim patients on a whim and seemingly without consequence, the real tragedy is thinking the system is working at all. The author might benefit from educating himself on how psychopathology has infected every aspect of our society.