Well This is a first for me. Diet Soda alone caused his death? I am not sure of where you were going with this. I do know that if God wanted us to drink masses of diet soda it would be falling from the clouds and running through our rivers. Not to seem insensitive, you just have my goat here. I know of people who like the sugar substitute in the diet soda. I will study this a bit more to see its validity.

I am also sorry for your loss. Just keep off those diet sodas until we all no more. K?

My Best Regards,

Just Joe

Hi Neilster,

Sorry to hear about your brother. I am not familiar with diet soda but I found a link that may answer your question. Consuming diet soda may have contributed to your brothers heart attack or may have not, but there could have been other factors as well. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your brother.

Hope this article helps.

Hugs,
Cassie

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/18/diet-soda-tied-to-heart-attack-stroke-risks-study/

JustMeJoe, you sound like just kind of idiot who gets heart disease by causing themselves stress. My brother was just like you. Me, I have no heart trouble so learn from those who realize it's not worth "getting your goat" over something you obviously didn't do any research on. A fool indeed. Keep strumming your guitar ;)

For what it's worth, I have been advised that saccharine attacks the heart muscle. This was told to me by my Consultant and he advised me that I needed to stay off of diet drinks.

I would also like to point out, Neilster, that Joe is far from being an idiot. That comment was very much uncalled for and unkind. He is a valued friend to all on here.

Neilster,
Surely you must be new to this site. We all wait for JustJoe to weigh in on our questions because he does the kind of research that helps us so much.

Neilster yes your brother died from diet soda there do you feel better .

I apologize for what you, neilster took as an insensitive remark. It is just a new added bit of information that I thought needed more resaearch. Alli was quite good at pointing out saccharine as a detriment to the heart muscle, this I did not know. I know that there are a plethora of different substitues for fructose like additives to soft drinks, but in your post I could not speak with any studied data to support your claim and your firm conclusion. But I will take my idiotic ass over to the Mayo web site and learn more so I, too can learn to live a more healthy life as hopefully this will help you also avoid your brother's untimely demise which I repeat has been a tragic reality. I can seem trite at times but my best interests are learning all I can about our cardiovascular systems.

My Best Regard Nielster,

Just Joe

Joe,

I was fairly surprised when I found out as well. However, I've never been a big fizzy drink consumer but I know many that are. Nevertheless, when you consider that fizzy drinks are constructed of nothing but chemicals, it's not surprising. It would seem that sugar is always the heart healthiest of alternatives - note I say "heart".

I agree with your sentiments that it would be envisaged that an enormous amount would need to be consumed over a prolonged period for it to cause a HA - probably an ocean. One would assume that there was a major underlying problem in the first place.

Love an prayers, Joe

Alli
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i DO THINK SOMETIMES! smile just turn off the caps sowwie.

Well I confess I drink cokes, or cola's have for years. I hate the diet ones....I always opt for the "real" deal ones. I don't know if you can say and point that is why I have so many chest pains?
But since I don't work like I use too I don't drink the soda's like I once did.
Instead I have a cup of coffee in the mornings...and maybe at night or lunch a can of soda. But going further naw...just don't

I drink more water....I find lately I have a bit of dry mouth it's been creaping up on me.

When you talk about your brother droping tums, then something else could of been happening to him besides his heart.
Since you didn't say if the doctors knew what was wrong with your brother and cause his death? Was it Heart like you said?
Well....just food for thought it seems like all our body systems are
link together, maybe something else could help it along, not just from the sodas....maybe something to do with the stomach?

Well I am just a plain person with plain ideas....and what I been thru these last few years and doing some of those type of sodas except not diet.....I don't know for sure if it was it alone? but again just me with my little opion.

I hope that at lease your brother will rest in peace........
and you find solidute inside....

God must of needed your brother in heaven....or to teach people like me who love their sodas to look up and find out what it does to our body's? who knows right.

I hope you find something to help you thru this lost......
to hold on too........anyone that goes to lost // I feel it is hard.

God Bless you for your carring of your brother.