As someone trying to lose weight I have tried just about every diet drink on the market. Imagine my concern when I came across a recent announcement that diet drinks may be doing damage to our kidneys!
Apparently drinking 2 or more a day may double the risk of our kidneys failing. In particular women who drank 2 or more had a 30% drop in kidney function. The report when on to say that the 30% amount was considered signification – duh! Particularly for diabetics who already have kidney issues and can’t drink sugary drinks.
Unfortunately, their definition of a “serving” of diet soda was rather non-definitive. It seems to have been merely a can, a glass or a bottle…
Other things that effect your kidneys in this way is higher salt intake. And of course the study they derived this from was all about women, so there’s no data to prove it’s true for men, but kidney disease diagnoses have doubled each of the last two decades – which is about the time diet cokes came on the scene!