She writes, “These findings raise the question whether [artificial sweetener] use might be fueling—rather than fighting—our escalating obesity epidemic.” The bad news for diet soda kept rolling in. Over the ten years of the Northern Manhattan Study,9 Dr. Hannah Gardener from the University of Miami found in 2012 that drinking diet soda was associated with a 43 percent increase in risk of vascular events (strokes and heart attacks). The 2008 Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (ARIC)10 found a 34 percent increased incidence of metabolic syndrome in diet soda users, which is consistent
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The danger of sweetener
