then it is okay to have a little regular soda. however if you re counting calories like me, then, go for the diet soda today. better yet, the glass of wine. keep pushing wine. good for your heart. jon: so no absolute correlation here? there is no, as jenna said, no direct line says drinking diet soda today will cause a stroke but there are some interesting correlations? interesting correlations. basically like every scientist will tell you, larger studies need to be done. we ll see what happens. jenna: you feeling if you drink diet soda today, craving? craving for sweets? they do say that again, people that drink a lot of diet soda todays always have that sweet tooth. they re looking for a lot of sugar. look at the end of the day i don t think, as long as you don t make it a daily staple and concentrate on overall health, diet soda today will not be dangerous for you. jenna: red wine? red wine. remember the red wine? jon: i like that. there you go. jon: dr. manny.
and what they looked at is, well, if they controlled for, let s say weight, overall weight and a little bit of life-style, was there any increased risk of any complications and they found 44% increase in heart attacks and strokes. as compared to the control group who had 22%. jon: these are people who drink a diet soda today every day, right? they drank it when the survey was done. they didn t follow to see how much diet soda today they drank overall. so the question is, is this a risk factor? i think everybody who looked at the study would say no. it is an association because they did not take into account a couple of things. number one, family history, which is very important. again, you re talking about latinos like myself, african-americans, and we re a little bit in the high-risk category. number two, they didn t check cholesterol or any abnormal cholesterol history in the family. when you look at all these variables they did not make any association that diet soda todays create