Excessive Consumption Of Diet Drinks Can Cause To Depression

Excessive Consumption Of Diet Drinks Can Cause To Depression.
Older adults who down several house drinks a epoch may have a heightened risk of developing depression, a unfamiliar study suggests. Researchers found that of more than 260000 older adults in a US survey, those who had at least four everyday servings of artificially sweetened soda, iced tea or fruit punch were at increased jeopardize of being diagnosed with depression in the next decade. People with a taste for sugar-sweetened drinks also showed a higher recession risk versus those who avoided the beverages. But the link was weaker than the one between diet drinks and depression, according to the study, which was released Jan 8, 2013.

On the other hand, coffee lovers had a minor extent crop depression risk than people who typically passed on the java. What it all means, however, is anyone's guess. "This unquestionably creates more questions than it answers," said Eva Redei, a professor of psychiatry at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. And it unquestionably is not doable to lay the blame on diet drinks themselves, based on these findings alone who was not involved in the study.

Caution is in order, agreed go into leader Dr Honglei Chen, an investigator at the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. "The scrutinize is preliminary and more investigation into the topic is needed". But the findings are "intriguing," and are dependable with a small but growing number of studies linking artificially sweetened drinks to poorer health.

The results were released by the American Academy of Neurology, up ahead of its annual encounter in San Diego in March 2013. The findings are based on more than 260000 Americans elderly 50 to 71 who reported on their usual beverage habits. About a decade later, they were asked whether they'd been diagnosed with dejection in the past several years.