Friday, February 08, 2008

Money, Soda, and other news

 


From http://www.truthnews.us/?p=1916


Metabolic Syndrome Tied to Diet Soda




Cryptogon
February 8th, 2008


I particularly like the retarded musings of one of the co-authors of the research:



“Why is it happening? Is it some kind of chemical in the diet soda, or something about the behavior of diet soda drinkers?”


Holy crap.


Are we to believe that a professor of epidemiology needs to be told about the links between aspartame and diabetes, hypertension and obesity?!


I’m just glad that the slop and idiot ramblings of people who should know better don’t get to me anymore.


Water off a duck’s back, it is.


Water off a duck’s back.


Via: New York Times:


Researchers have found a correlation between drinking diet soda and metabolic syndrome — the collection of risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes that include abdominal obesity, high cholesterol and blood glucose levels, and elevated blood pressure.


The scientists gathered dietary information on more than 9,500 men and women ages 45 to 64 and tracked their health for nine years.


Over all, a Western dietary pattern — high intakes of refined grains, fried foods and red meat — was associated with an 18 percent increased risk for metabolic syndrome, while a “prudent” diet dominated by fruits, vegetables, fish and poultry correlated with neither an increased nor a decreased risk.


But the one-third who ate the most fried food increased their risk by 25 percent compared with the one-third who ate the least, and surprisingly, the risk of developing metabolic syndrome was 34 percent higher among those who drank one can of diet soda a day compared with those who drank none.


“This is interesting,” said Lyn M. Steffen, an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Minnesota and a co-author of the paper, which was posted online in the journal Circulation on Jan. 22. “Why is it happening? Is it some kind of chemical in the diet soda, or something about the behavior of diet soda drinkers?”


 


 


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From http://www.truthnews.us/?p=1914


 


Manchurian Neocon McCain: Bomb Iran




Press TV
February 8, 2008


McCain: Sanctions, attacks await Iran


Republican presidential hopeful John McCain says the US and its European allies will adopt unilateral sanctions against Iran.


He stated that if the UN is not prepared to impose stronger political and economic sanctions, the United States and its European partners will take such measures.


He also said that a military solution should remain on the table as a last resort and that Iran is playing ‘a game it cannot win’.


“I intend to make it unmistakably clear to Iran that we will not permit a government that espouses the destruction of … Israel . . .and pledges undying enmity to the United States to possess weapons to advance their malevolent ambitions,” Suddeutschen Zeitung quoted the senator as saying.


The recently published US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) has confirmed that Iran is not developing nuclear arms.


Iran says under the Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) it is entitled to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes and that its nuclear activities are aimed at civilian purposes.

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