Drinking diet soda pop: helpful or harmful?

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A new report, published in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation, implies that drinking diet soda pop is just as likely to provoke the metabolic syndrome as drinking sugar-laden non-diet soda pop. Quoting the lead author: "We were struck by the fact that it did...

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Diet Soda and Diabetes -- but HOW MUCH
Cathy
Friday, August 01, 2008 at 09:07 PM

My husband is a recently-diagnosed diabetes patient. In fact, they now know it is Type 1 (he is 46), and he uses Lantus (AM/PM doses) and Novolog pen.

He drinks a LOT of diet soda.

While I know it doesn't change his blood sugar, can this be good for him?

I mean a LOT -- even if he isn't eating something, he'll open a can and just drink it.

(Often, I believe he should just be drinking water -- i.e. after cuttin lawn, etc).

What do you think?