> women who consumed two or more diet drinks a day were 30 percent more likely to experience a cardiovascular event and 50 percent more likely to die from related cardiovascular disease than women who never, or only rarely, consumed diet drinks.
Yes, I'll believe that. Drinking two or more soft drinks a day is NOT a healthy diet, regardless of whether it is diet or full on sugar.
I wonder how women who consumed two or more non-diet soft drinks fared.
Beyond that, the study is using ANY diet drink. How does that incriminate Aspartame? I am not defending Aspartame, but this sort of crusade reminds me of the anti-vaccination people. Get enough people to believe in something, and it becomes a Holy Grail.
Darp, I can believe you personally need to stay clear of anything with Aspartame in it, because it seems to bring on some strange symptoms. However, most of the other 999 out of a thousand people can hike and never worry about sensitivity to a sugar substitute. Even though it affects you adversely, I don't see the point of trying to convince everyone else to avoid it.
