Diet Sodas and Non-Nutritive Sweeteners: It's All Bad

For those who want to be healthy, it's wise to eliminate soda from the diet completely.

Diet sodas have been the subject of hundreds of studies in the last decade. The majority of those studies have found that diet soda is unhealthy, due to the artificial sweeteners it contains. For example, a 2009 study discovered that daily consumption of diet soda increased metabolic syndrome risk by 36%, and type 2 diabetes risk by 67%. Staggering numbers-and a reminder of the danger of diet soda.

 

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