Drinking Diet Soda Increases Risk of Vascular Events By 61 Percent

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For years diet soda has been portrayed as the "healthier soda" choice because it has no calories. But zero calorie sweeteners like saccharin and aspartame come with risks including a link with bladder cancer, brain tumors, and osteoporosis. If that's not reason enough to put down the frighteningly sweet bubbled beverage, new research recently presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference in Los Angeles found that daily intake of diet soda increases your risk of vascular events by 61 percent, according to a story on the Today Show.

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