If you drink diet soda, 43% higher change of heart attack than regular soda

Seems like details are lacking. How many sodas a day are we talking about?

That sounds like a very badly designed study.

Here’s the real solution

Don’t drink soda

Correlation =/= causation. It may be directly linked. But I'd bet it's just that fat people drink diet soda more. Therefore people drinking diet soda more have a better chance at having a heart attack due to their weight.

Source: I'm too fat and drink diet soda.

Anything that increases insulin response is bad for your heart and, of course, health in general.

Aspartame does this.

Your 43% number took me to this study from 2012 for anyone that wants to investigate further what merits, if any, the headline contains.

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’m going to get a blood sugar monitor (not diabetic) just to see the difference in spikes from various foods/drinks.

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I was diabetic but lost a lot of weight and changed my diet; now, I'm not even pre-diabetic. I have my old monitor somewhere. if I can find it, I'll do the same. Should be interesting.

That sounds like when it was thought that red meat was bad for you because there was a correlation of red meat eaters and the rate of heart disease. Was it the red meat? Or was it the fact that many people who consumed red meat also smoked, drank excessively and lived a sedentary or unhealthy lifestyle?

That’s on people with type 2 diabetes. Not necessarily transferrable to the general public. And the intro itself mentions that sedentary lifestyles play a role, too. Be weary of studies. Not all of them or what they seem.

At the end of the day, they’re going to broadcast what their national network boss tells them to.