Understand that there is a big difference between "association" and "cause and effect."
Most of the research into overweight/obesity is "association." That is what garners headlines.
It is also what makes careers misleading, mistreating, drugging and mutilating the public.
The only cause and effect in overweight/obesity is too many Calories in, too few out.
Working from this understanding of true cause and effect leads to real resolution of the matter.
This is precisely how we at FitnessMed work with people to develop weight loss and fitness programs that absolutely must work, except for those committed to self-sabotage.
"While the authors acknowledge that the increased risk of metabolic syndrome associated with high-calorie, high-sugar regular soft drinks might be expected, the similar risk found among those drinking diet sodas is more challenging to understand, they say. It is worth noting that dietary patterns are similar across drinkers of both regular and diet soft drinks.(I added the emphasis.)
'Although our study adjusted for lifestyle factors, it is known that people who regularly drink soft drinks-even diet sodas-are also known to eat foods that are higher in calories and fat, and get less physical activity,' said Ramachandran Vasan, M.D, professor of medicine at Boston School of Medicine, and senior author of the paper."
Bingo.
Too bad this will be buried beneath the heap of weight loss/fitness crap because it is too un-Oprah-like.
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