OK, by now I’m sure you have seen all over the news that diet soda can increase the risk of heart disease. Why do i hate this news? Well for one, i like diet soda very much, also it helps me cut hundreds of calories per week.

I may have to find an alternative to diet soda. One drink i have found to be good is Diet Ice Tea. It has only 5 calories and 0 sugar, so maybe this will be my substitute.

So how did they find out about this?

Many researchers had some idea that diet soda was bad for you, they had done some small test, but this time they went all out.

They took more then 6,000 participants who were free of any metabolic syndrome, and told them to drink diet soda for a period of time. What they found was that consumption of one or more soft drinks a day was associated with almost a 45 percent higher risk of developing metabolic syndrome during a follow-up period of 4 years.

So i guess people are now going to find other alternatives like me. Let me know what diet drinks you like.