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Diet sodas linked to waist gain<\/b><\/h3>\n

You could search all day in Sharon Fowler\u2019s kitchen and pantry and there\u2019s one thing you\u2019d never, ever find: diet soda.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbsolutely not,\u201d said Fowler, M.P.H., adjunct faculty in the School of Medicine<\/a> at the Health Science Center.<\/p>\n

Fowler was the lead author of a paper published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society<\/i> that described how consuming diet sodas was linked to subsequent increases in waist size among people 65 and older: The more diet sodas they drank, the more their waist size grew over the next decade. Data for the study came from the San Antonio Longitudinal Study of Aging (SALSA), led by Helen P. Hazuda, Ph.D.<\/a>, senior author and professor of medicine at the Health Science Center. Ken Williams, M.S., P.Stat., adjunct faculty in the Long School of Medicine, co-authored the paper and performed all analyses reported in it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a heated debate about whether this is a causal relationship,\u201d Fowler said. \u201cIt\u2019s my personal opinion that it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the explanations is that the artificial sweeteners themselves affect the metabolism, Fowler explained. If a person tastes something sweet, it\u2019s not just the brain that absorbs the information; so do other parts of the body. When the body registers sweetness, it ramps up to deal with sugar. But if there isn\u2019t real sugar present, the body doesn\u2019t know how to handle it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of like crying wolf,\u201d she said, and can lead to metabolic dysregulation.<\/p>\n

To make matters worse, Fowler said, one of the most dangerous places you can gain weight is your middle, because increasing waist size is linked to increasing visceral fat and an increase in inflammation, which is tied to the increased risk of arthritis, diabetes, cancer, heart attack, Alzheimer\u2019s disease and other major medical problems.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next for Fowler? She\u2019s currently pursuing her doctorate in epidemiology and plans to continue her research on artificial sweeteners.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I am most concerned about is when women are pregnant and they\u2019re using diet sodas, or consuming artificial sweeteners in other ways,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat is happening to their unborn child? There are a number of people who have reported neurological problems when they themselves have taken certain artificial sweeteners\u2014brain fog, memory loss. I want to look at whether the unborn child is at increased risk of developing neurological problems when the mother has been exposed to artificial sweeteners. To me, that would be infinitely worse than gaining or losing a few pounds.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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