{"id":1818,"date":"2013-07-11T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2013-07-11T05:00:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T09:00:47","slug":"do-diet-drinks-mess-up-metabolisms-the-salt-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/11\/do-diet-drinks-mess-up-metabolisms-the-salt-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Diet Drinks Mess Up Metabolisms? : The Salt : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the consumption of diet drinks made with artificial sweeteners , researchers are beginning to make some uncomfortable associations with weight gain and other diseases.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, as researcher writes in a new opinion piece published in the journal , &#8220;accumulating evidence suggests that frequent consumers of these sugar substitutes such as aspartame, sucralose, and saccharin may also be at increased risk of &#8230; metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thesalt\/2013\/07\/10\/200488420\/do-diet-drinks-mess-up-metabolisms?utm_source=NPR&amp;utm_medium=facebook&amp;utm_campaign=20130710\">Do Diet Drinks Mess Up Metabolisms? : The Salt : NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the consumption of diet drinks made with artificial sweeteners , researchers are beginning to make some uncomfortable associations with weight gain and other diseases&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[96,143,258,320,468,511],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}