Diet Soft Drinks Increase Risk for Premature Birth? « askGeorgie.com
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A recent study involving nearly 60,000 pregnant Danish women indicates that drinking a lot of diet soda may be linked to prematurity. Women who drank at least one diet soda a day were 38% more likely to deliver their babies early (earlier than 37 weeks gestation) than women who drank no diet soda. Women who drank four or more diet sodas each day were 80% more likely to deliver a premature baby. The results were consistent whether the women were of normal weight or were overweight.
According to the March of Dimes, one in eight babies is born premature, or 13%. If this holds true, then a woman who drinks one diet soda a day would have a 17% risk, while women drinking 4 or more a day would mean a 22% risk of early birth.
What does this mean? Should you be alarmed if you’re expecting and have been enjoying diet soda all along? No, I don’t think is warranted. First, this one study does go against the weight of studies that have shown artificial sweeteners to be safe during pregnancy. That is not to say it should be ignored – but it should be taken for what it is. A single study. This is definitely a topic on which more research is warranted.
It’s also worth mentioning that many different types of artificial sweeteners are used in diet drinks, and this study did not differentiate between sweeteners. So it may be that some are harmless, and some aren’t. From this study, we simply won’t be able to tell. But it would probably be prudent to reduce or eliminate artificial sweeteners from your diet while pregnant. The easiest advice for me to give is : just drink plain water if you’re pregnant. And if that suits you, go right ahead! However, if that doesn’t sound like realistic advice to you, if you really like having your drinks taste like something, there are still options.
So should you give up diet soda for regular sugar-sweetened soda? I’d definitely say no to that one. When it comes to regular sugar-sweetened beverages, the data are much less ambivalent. Sugar sweetened beverages are bad for you in many ways, increasing risk of obesity, high blood pressure, and gestational diabetes. No one disagrees with that.
But giving up diet soda is hard! It’s common for me to hear about people claiming to be “addicted to” diet soda. Some people find that moderation just isn’t possible for them, so cold-turkey is the way to go. No more diet soda, period. More commonly, I find people succeed with tapering down their soda consumption. Replace some of the instances in which you drink soda with water or an unsweetened beverage, and keep reducing until you are comfortable with a lower soda intake. Personally, in high school I drank little liquid diet soda – but in the years following I tapered it down and now only drink one occasionally.
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According to the March of Dimes, one in eight babies is born premature, or 13%. If this holds true, then a woman who drinks one diet soda a day would have a 17% risk, while women drinking 4 or more a day would mean a 22% risk of early birth.
