New research warns that drinking a lot of diet sodas or artificially sweetened fruit juices may increase an older woman's risk for stroke. What to know:
, a diet drink habit pushed clot-driven stroke risk up by roughly twofold and fourfold, respectively, the researchers reported.
She agreed that more research is needed to further explore a possible diet drink-heart disease connection. But for now Sandon offered simple advice: diet or regular, sodas offer no nutritional value other than calories. "The nutrition you are missing because you are drinking artificially sweetened beverages instead may be the real problem," she said.
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