By Amy Norton
NEW YORK | Wed Mar 28, 2012 4:41pm EDT
(Reuters Health) – Studies have hinted that diet-soda lovers could face higher risks of diabetes and heart disease, but new findings suggest that overall diet may be what matters most in the end.
Several studies have found that people who regularly down diet soda are more likely than people who don’t to have certain risk factors for those chronic diseases — like high blood pressure and high blood sugar.
And one recent study became the first to link the beverages to the risk of actual heart attacks and strokes (see Reuters Health story of February 17, 2012).
Still, researchers have not been able to say whether it’s the sugar-free drinks, themselves, that deserve the blame.
Many factors separate diet- and regular-beverage drinkers — and, for that matter, people who stick with water. Overall diet is one. Source1 Source2:AJCN
研究建議，低卡飲料(diet-drink)
之前有許多文章在研究低卡飲料與肥胖、糖尿病、心臟疾病等的關係，發現有不利的結果，但是這種關聯卻沒有很強有利的證據證明有直接的關係，目前有新研究針對4000名18到30歲的美國人所做的20年長期研究，發現謹慎飲食+不常喝低卡飲料這組人，產生代謝症候群的比例最低，只有18%。而謹慎飲食+不常喝低卡飲料這組人則只有稍微高一點，佔20%。最後採典型西式飲食方式的這組，產生代謝症候群的比例最高，高達32%。
其實這篇還是沒有辦法清楚說明低卡飲料究竟有無不利影響，但至少說明了良好的飲食習慣才是最重要的，不過我也觀察到有許多人有著一種代償心態，怎麼說呢?比方說吧，有人喝了保肝的蜆精、吃了保肝藥，所以就覺得我的肝臟OK啦，所以就去喝很多酒，人家都說喝酒傷肝，不喝傷心，那我就吃點保肝藥就可以來喝酒又不傷心啦，誰知道肝臟還是壞了，那這樣我們可以說是蜆精還是保肝藥傷了肝臟嗎?當然不行啦。同樣的在減肥這事情也有同樣的代償心態，有人覺得我吃了減肥的健康食品，或吃了減肥藥，或喝了低卡飲料，減肥就OK啦!所以就吃下很多高熱量食物，結果變得更胖，那我們可以說是減肥的健康食品、減肥藥或低卡飲料使他變胖嗎?當然也不行，所以這樣的作法在研究上也很難找出到底哪個才是真正導致肥胖、糖尿病與心血管疾病的原因，可謂莫衷一是，難以釐清，所以最後還是給想減肥的朋友一個忠告，健康飲食最重要!
