The headlines today are screaming:
Diet drinks linked with heart disease, death!
It’s all over radio, TV, newspapers and the internet. So it must be legit!
Let me save you some time and concern? A 9-year study of women came up with this:
Some sort of heart disease was found at the following rates:
- 8.5% (two or more Diet drinks a day)
- 7.2% (rare or no Diet drinks)
- 6.8% (a few Diets a week)
Hello! Seriously?? The headlines scream that the diet drinks are causing death, while inside those articles it clearly shows that those who drink a few diet drinks a week have less risk than those who don’t drink any? Can anyone say, “headlines lie!”
So what about the higher rate for women who drink more diet drinks? Doesn’t that prove diet drinks are killing them? Again, the answer is right there in the same article:
The women who drank the most drinks were also more likely to smoke, to be overweight, to have diabetes and to have high blood pressure.
Again, the headlines are an incredible lie. The World Heart Federation website says that just diabetes increases the risk factor of heart disease between 200 and 400%. Yet those who are drinking the diet drinks have only a 1.3% increase. It sounds to me like the diet drink factor has incredibly reduced their risk, not increased it.
Similar increase risks are also associated with smoking, obesity, and high blood pressure.
So from this information, the undeniable conclusion is that drinking diet drinks dramatically reduces a woman’s risk of heart disease when combined with any of these other risk factors. It also slightly reduces the risk of heart disease when none of these other factors are present
In other headlines, a 150 year study has proven that, over time, being born provokes a 100% chance of dying.
BUT … there is an incredible hidden danger in most diet drinks that gets almost no press, but will cause a life insurance company to flatly reject your application. Wanna know about it? Read it here.
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