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Diet soda may do more harm than good

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It easily baffles the mind when someone orders a bacon cheeseburger and fries and then requests a diet soda to wash it down. Although their motivation may be to minimize the damage the burger is causing, could that diet soda actually be harmful? According to a new report from Purdue University, diet soda drinkers have the same health risk as regular soda. It seems the artificial sweeteners are to blame.