Delicious, possibly stroke-causing diet soda.

Diet soda is a unique animal.  Sold for the calorie-conscious and those that have diabetes as a healthier alternative to the sugar-filled sodas we really want, it seems as though diet soda is too good to be true.  According to a recent study conducted by Dr. Steven Greenberg, a neurologist from Harvard Medical School, it is.  A report presented to the International Stroke Conference links diet soda to increased risk of stroke and obesity.

Granted, health nuts, there’s no actual evidence that explains why diet soda is risky, but apparently the study is significant enough to be presented before a conference on strokes.  Daily diet soda drinkers had a 48 percent higher risk of stroke, even after adjusting for waist size, race, lifestyle, smoking rate, diabetic history, and all the other factors that contribute to a stroke risk.  That said, the researchers didn’t adjust for risk of stroke in family history, which is a major flaw in the research.

Still, I’m going to plan to pet my cat more often and reduce my stroke risk, so I can keep chugging diet sodas.  The last thing I want to have to do is learn how to read with my tongue.

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