You're even more likely to die if you choose diet soda
by Cassidy Morrison
| September 05, 2019 04:10 PM
Despite the perceptions diet drinks are a better option than regular sodas, all sweetened drinks are bad for your health, according to new research.
Drinking more than two soft drinks a day is associated with a higher likelihood of early death, and drinking more than two servings of artificially-sweetened soft drinks is linked to a 26% higher risk of premature death, according to a JAMA Internal Medicine study published Wednesday that sampled 451,743 people from 10 European countries.
One of the study's authors, Dr. Amy Mullee, professor at the University College Dublin Institute of Food and Health, wrote to the Washington Examiner that the results don't necessarily mean that drinking soft drinks cause early death, but rather that there is a link. "There are other factors which may be behind the association we observed," she said. "For instance, high soft drink consumption may be a marker of overall unhealthy diet."
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