Drinking diet soda is associated with a 50-percent increase in stroke risk, according to a study presented in February 2011 at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference in Los Angeles.
There's no way to tell yet, what ingredient would be associated with strokes or whether lifestyle choices among drinkers are the real cause.
Well of course diet soda isn't healthy...You're drinking copious amounts of phosphoric acid, artificial colors, artificial flavors, and some laboratory-crafted chemical that tricks your brain into perceiving the sensation of sweet.
Diet soda is an alternative to regular soda, but neither is healthy. You are merely trading calories from sugar for chemicals of questionable nature.
Studies on diet soda have been flawed, because researchers have discounted one important fact: Those drinking diet soda likely drink it not because they are health nuts but because they have a certain health condition. They are either overweight or diabetic. Thus, they are at risk for strokes, heart attacks and cancer regardless of the type of beverage they prefer.
It is a shame that those who drink diet soda cannot adopt Asia's tradition of unsweetened teas, ubiquitous in shops and vending machines. But in the US at least even otherwise healthy green tea is tainted with sugar or artificial sweetener — yet another example of corrupting a healthy alternative.
