Artificially
sweetened fizzy drinks, though marketed as a viable healthy alternative, were
linked to a host of health problems including strokes and heart attacks.
Compared
to those who never or rarely consume the drinks, regular users were 30 per cent
more likely to suffer what was described as a "cardiovascular event".
Experts
analysed the diet drink intake of almost 60,000 participants in the women's
health initiative, a long-running US
And
while their statistics were taken from an impressively large sample size, the scientists
stressed that they could only prove an "association" between health
problems and diet drink intake - not a direct causal link.
