Drinking Excess Diet Sodas a day can increased risk of Stroke, Heart Disease, Early Eeath: Study

There’s a new reason to ditch diet soda.

Drinking two or more artificially sweetened beverages a day has been linked to an increased risk of stroke, coronary heart disease and early death, according to a new study published in the American Heart Association's medical journal, Stroke.

The study looked at self-reported info from nearly 82,000 women ages 50 to 79 years old from the Women’s Health Initiative Observational Study, whose health statuses were tracked for nearly a dozen years on average.

Only 5.1% of the women reported downing two or more artificially sweetened drinks per day.

Those who did had a 23% higher risk of strokes, 29% higher risk of heart disease and were 16% more likely to die earlier than those who drank one or less such beverages a week.

“These new findings add to the potentially harmful association of consuming high quantities of [artificially sweetened beverages] with these health outcomes,” the study reads.

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