A lot of people opt for diet drinks thinking they're doing something better for them.

It's a better option.

Well a new study is now calling that into question.

Very provocative.

Big study, thousands of people followed over years.

Let me break it down for you.

Specifically what they looked at was how often they had strokes three times more likely

than normal.

There's been mounds of research that artificial sweeters, both in human studies, animal studies,

experimental studies, population studies, is bad news.

So let me share with you what's going on.

First, they've been linked to obesity.

So number one, it makes you fat.

Number two, it does it by rewiring and screwing up your brain chemistry and your metabolism.

Wow, this sounds pretty bad.

They're making it seem like artificial sweeteners are just the worst thing ever.

Well Cynthia, that is the question.

First of all, I take everything that comes out of Dr. Oz's mouth with a wheelbarrow full

of salt.

But there are a lot of headlines out there saying that artificial sweeteners will give

us everything from cancer to heart disease.

But for decades, we've also been hearing that sweeten-low and splendor, neutro-sweet,

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