Diet drinks linked with heart disease, death


Maggie Fox
CNBC
March 29, 2014

Women who drink the most diet sodas may also be more likely to develop heart disease and even to die, according to a new study published Saturday.

Researchers found women who drank two or more diet drinks a day were 30 percent more likely to have a heart attack or other cardiovascular “event,” and 50 percent more likely to die, than women who rarely touch such drinks.

The findings, being presented at a meeting of the American College of Cardiology, don’t suggest that the drinks themselves are killers. But women who toss back too many diet sodas may be trying to make up for unhealthy habits, experts say.

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This article is absurd. “Diet soda contributes to heart disease. No it doesn’t. Yes it does. No it doesn’t, the drinkers have other issues. Yes it does. No it doesn’t. But… but… but…”
Give me a fucking break.

It’s no wonder to me why American healthcare never really advances beyond silly drugs.

Want to really address the real issue with diet drinks? How about you talk about the synthetic bullshit they put in them like aspartame and the 4-MI?
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