Oh crap. I guess the gallons of Diet Dr. Pepper I drink each day might not be such a great thing. A new study shows that daily diet soda drinkers have a much greater risk of stroke and heart attack. From MSNBC:
The study, which followed more than 2,500 New Yorkers for nine or more years, found that people who drank diet soda every day had a 61 percent higher risk of vascular events, including stroke and heart attack, than those who completely eschewed the diet drinks, according to researchers who presented their results today at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference in Los Angeles.
GREAT.
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I read a similar article... BUT... it also said there was no physiological or chemical proof of the connection. The findings are purely statistical. It could just indicate that people who drink a lot of diet soda also have bad diets in general and may not exercise as much. So I popped open another Coke Zero and ordered myself a pizza!
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