Health
If you think that drinking diet soda instead of regular soda will protect yourself from a stroke – you are deeply mistaken! New research has found that drinking diet soda every day increases the risk of stroke and heart attacks by 61 percent compared to those who don't drink these drinks generally.
“If these results are confirmed by future studies, then it is clear that diet sodas may not be an optimal substitute for regular high-content soda sugars. By using them, you will not be able to protect yourself from vascular diseases,” says researcher Hannah Gardener, an epidemiologist at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine. Miami Miller School of Medicine in Florida), Florida.
In other studies, Gardener and her colleagues found that high salt intake is also associated with high cardiovascular risks. People who consume more than 4,000 milligrams of sodium per day are more than twice as likely to have a stroke compared to those who consume 1,500 mg per day.
2,564 people took part in studies of soda consumption, who were asked how often they drink soda and what kind of soda. Based on these data, scientists divided all participants into groups – who drink carbonated drinks daily, drink them in moderation and do not drink at all. After about 9 years, there were 559 cases of strokes and heart attacks among the participants. These health problems were 61 percent more common among soda drinkers. When scientists took into account other factors, such as metabolic syndrome, peripheral vascular disease, or early heart disease, the risk was 48 percent, which is also quite a big figure.
In studies of salt consumption, experts interviewed 2,657 participants about their eating habits. After 10 years, 187 cases of ischemic stroke were recorded. An ischemic stroke occurs when a blocked artery causes brain tissue death due to impaired normal blood circulation and oxygen supply (hemorrhagic stroke involves brain hemorrhage).
For every extra 500 ml of sodium per day, the risk of stroke increases by 16 percent, according to scientists. Only one-third of the participants consumed the recommended amount of 2,300 mg of sodium per day, which equates to about one teaspoon of salt. 12 percent of participants followed the American guidelines American Heart Association and consumed less than 1500 mg per day. On average, participants consumed 3,031 mg of sodium per day, the researchers found.
“It should be remembered that sodium intake above normal threatens to increase the risk of developing ischemic stroke in people with hypertension, as well as everyone else, so if you don't want to make money stroke, it's better to reduce salt intake,” Gardener advises.