Diet drinks may not be as good an option as you thought

09 September 2019 - 05:08If you think you can placate your conscience by swapping a regular soft drink for a diet one, think again. The World Health Organisation is now warning that consuming up to two diet drinks a day may increase the risk of early death by more than a quarter.

When comparing the consumption of regular and diet soft drinks, it was found that people who consumed at least two glasses of diet soft drinks have a 26% higher risk of early death than those who had one a month. Study co-author Neil Murphy, a scientist at the International Agency for Research on Cancer, said he hopes studies such as this will contribute to a better understanding of artificially sweetened soft drinks. “Our results for sugar-sweetened soft drinks provide further support to limit consumption and to replace them with other healthier beverages, preferably water,” he said.

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