DIET SODA LINKED TO GREATER OBESITY IN SENIORS

In older adult patients, an increase in diet soda intake is tied to greater abdominal obesity, results of a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society suggest. In a striking dose-response relationship, increasing diet soda use was associated with escalating abdominal obesity, a potential cause for Cardio-metabolic risk in this aging population, For diet soda users, the mean waist circumference was increased almost triple that of nonusers. ( The Clinical Advisor March 2015)