Diet Drinks Link To Depression? | Life Right Behavioural Medicine ...

Diet drinks are being questioned by experts as to whether they could raise depression risk, after a large study has found a link. ?The US research in more than 250,000 people found depression was more common among frequent consumers of artificially sweetened beverages.

Sweeteners have been very widely tested and reviewed for safety and the ones on the market have an excellent safety track record.
Gaynor Bussell. ?British Dietetic Association

Those who drank four cans or glasses of diet fizzy drinks or artificially sweetened juice a day increased their risk of depression by about a third.

Lead researcher Dr Honglei Chen, of the National Institutes of Health in North Carolina, said: ?Our research suggests that cutting out or down on sweetened diet drinks or replacing them with unsweetened coffee may naturally help lower your depression risk.?

Sweeteners are used in a wide range of manufactured sugar-free, reduced sugar and low calorie foods and drinks -?these include aspartame, saccharin, acesulfame potassium (K), cyclamate and sucralose

According to Doctor Marcela?it was discovered by accident in 1965 when James Schlatter, a chemist of G.D. Searle Company, was testing an anti-ulcer drug.

Aspartame was approved for dry goods in 1981 and for carbonated beverages in 1983. It was originally approved for dry goods on July 26, 1974, but objections filed by neuroscience researcher Dr John W. Olney and Consumer attorney James Turner in August 1974 as well as investigations of G.D. Searle?s research practices caused the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to put approval of aspartame on hold (December 5, 1974). In 1985, Monsanto purchased G.D. Searle and made Searle Pharmaceuticals and The NutraSweet Company separate subsidiaries.

Aspartame accounts for over 75 percent of the adverse reactions to food additives reported to the FDA. Many of these reactions are very serious including seizures and death. A few of the 90 different documented symptoms listed in the report as being caused by aspartame include: Headaches/migraines, dizziness, seizures, nausea, numbness, muscle spasms, weight gain, rashes, depression, fatigue, irritability, tachycardia, insomnia, vision problems, hearing loss, heart palpitations, breathing difficulties, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, loss of taste, tinnitus, vertigo, memory loss, and joint pain.

Aspartame is made up of three chemicals: aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol. The book ?Prescription for Nutritional Healing,? by James and Phyllis Balch, lists aspartame under the category of ?chemical poison.?

Dr. Mercola has made significant milestones in his mission to bring people practical solutions to their health problems. A New York Times Best Selling Author, Dr. Mercola was also voted the 2009 Ultimate Wellness Game Changer by the Huffington Post, and has been featured in TIME magazine, LA Times, CNN, Fox News, ABC News, Today Show, CBS?s Washington Unplugged with Sharyl Attkisson, and other major media resources.

You can read his article from which we have taken a sample here

Source: http://www.liferight.co.uk/diet-drinks-link-to-depression/

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