Hello, this is Monica Reinagle, the nutrition diva. Thanks for tuning into today's show.

We're going to be talking about some new risks that have been linked to regular consumption of diet soda.

A study published last week in the journal, Stroke, found that drinking even one can of diet

soda a day triples your risk of dementia. And not surprisingly, this caused quite an uproar.

Sharon posted her concerns on the Nutrition Diva Facebook page.

She wrote, I'm disturbed by a report I heard yesterday

about a possible link between artificial sweeteners and dementia.

I'm reluctant to stop using artificial sweeteners on the basis of a single study.

But I'm in my 60s and I use artificial sweeteners daily so sure I'm concerned are there any other

studies that support this as a matter of fact Sharon there don't seem to be any other

studies linking artificial sweeteners to dementia.

And I think your reluctance to change your behavior based on a single isolated finding is very

reasonable, especially when we take a closer look at what this particular study

actually found.

However, there may be other even more compelling arguments against the daily consumption of artificial sweeteners.

And I'll get back to those in a moment.

For now, though, let's take a look at what this recent study does and doesn't tell us

about the relationship between artificial sweeteners and dementia risk.

This is the first study to find a link between artificial sweeteners and dementia mostly because

it seems to be the first time that researchers looked for a

connection between the two. I predict that this provocative finding will now

prompt more researchers to ask the same question and that'll shed a lot more light on

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