Drinking diet doesn’t make you exempt from the link between soda consumption and risk factors for heart disease, say new findings from Boston University School of Medicine.
“We were struck by the fact that whether it was diet or regular soda that participants consumed, the association with increased risk was present,” says Ramachandran Vasan, a professor of medicine at BU’s School of Medicine and the study’s lead investigator and senior author.
Vasan says that study participants who drank soda on a daily basis exhibited an increased risk for developing metabolic syndrome. The syndrome, which doubles a person’s risk of heart disease, is …read more