Study: Diet Soda Linked to Increased Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke

The study does NOT say that 'daily consumption of diet soda can increase a person's risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke', as the author irresponsibly says. The author's logic is totally flawed. There is a link, just as there is a link between having pants with a 50" waist (diet soda) and being obese (heart attack). If those same people stop buying pants with a 50" waist (diet soda), they're no less likely to be obese (have a heart attack). Much more likely and logical is the probability that people who drink a diet soda every day are already overweight and therefore more susceptible to heart attack.

Am I reading correctly that old, overweight people who have bad eating habits and who happen to drink diet soda are at a higher risk of stroke or heart attack?

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So, is it because people who drink diet soda, eat a lot of burgers and other bad food, or are there actually something in diet soda, that's bad for you? Be more specific please.

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This article is a sad specimen of amateur reporting and sensationalist, unfounded conjecture. I got rid of my television due to poor programming, I need to cut down on taking the Yahoo bait, too. Old-school, I can say this is very poor writing.

This is a Flawed science experiment.

They did not conduct Health screenings of the participants, as they already may have been at risk for the same disease prior to consumption of the diet soda.

They failed to show what the TRUE link between the two were.

Is there a thumbs down button on this page anywhere? Also, when an article is titled "Diet soda linked to increased risk of heart attack and stroke", you want to actually have something in the article that proves this.... IE: "How does diet soda increase the risk of heart attack and stroke? Scientists aren't sure". Really?? So they have no proof but published this article? Man, must be a slow week in the news.....

If the diet soda contains nutrasweet then it contains methanol,aspartic acid and phenylanaline. Methanol can damage the conductive tissue in the heart and too much phenylanaline and aspartic acid can cause chemical imbalance,brain tumors,and possibly stroke.

23% of the study had cardiac events. But the vast majority, 76% only drank diet drinks once a month or less. Only 2% drank diet drinks daily. Of the 23%, how many were rare, light, or heavy diet drink consumers?

I think Juan has it right. Jack and diet coke with a triple cheesburger and onion rings just might put you under.

I bet the author works for the corn syrup lobby.

the study is flawed in the sense that the age group being studied was from 60 to 80. Ofcourse they will have heart problems anyway, even if they drink no soda. The fact that young people were excluded from study resulted in a very misleading finding.

This is absolutely typical of Yahoos misleading, alarmist headlines, which allot of times are just plain wrong. I usually drink diet Coke everyday, but I am also 5'11" tall and weigh 172 lbs. and exercise allot. This article is all about people who are obese and drink diet sodas to help curb there weight and not about diet soda itself causing these high numbers. Yahoo is the National Enquirer of the internet. They're pathetic. John

zzzzzzzzzz Diet soda's not safe. Red meat's not safe. Eggs aren't safe. The air isn't safe. zzzzzzzzzzz

1 word: Aspartame.... That's all you guys need to know. Just research what Aspartame is and what it does to the rats they test it on. Not to mention they discovered it while developing chemical weapons in WWII. It's amazing how many people don't know what it is. Aspartame=bacteria's waste#$%$

Was this study done by the same morons who did the one joint a week study? Studies also show that going to college and getting a degree in something does not cure stupid. It just gives the graduate more tools to be "creatively stupid" with. Vanessa and Hannahs parents should demand their money back from the schools that educated their daughters.

Splenda or Aspartame for the sweetener? Another shallow article.

There's no proven cause and effect here. As the researcher herself said that the correlation could be due to circumstances other than cause and effect. But now the whole country thinks for sure that diet soda CAUSES more incident of strokes. BAD REPORTING. The study did NOT prove cause and effect, and cause and effect should NOT be reported!

The chemicals in diet sodas are bad for you. When I stopped drinking diet sodas I stopped having body aches, brain fog, and irritability. Now if I drink a diet soda I feel as if someone's been beating me all over with a little hammer, which is my body's way of saying, "What's this crap? Why are you ingesting it?"

Funny how my comment is the ONLY one that mentions Aspartame.... Wake up people. Simple research is easy!