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Diet soda may be hurting your diet

  • Written by Eunice Zhang, Clinical Fellow of Preventive Medicine, University of Michigan
Coca-Cola is the world's most popular carbonated soft drink. The original is made with sugar, but the others contain artificial sweeteners that are now linked to a rise in obesity and diabetes.By Chones/shutterstock.com

Artificial sweeteners are everywhere, but the jury is still out on whether these chemicals are harmless. Also called non-nutritive...

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