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Re:Bill to put health warnings on soda and sugary drinks adv... by spinach on Friday May 24, 2019 @10:05AM (#20001600)
Diet sodas aren't better for your health though, in fact they may be worse.
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Re:Bill to put health warnings on soda and sugary drinks adv... by SketchySeaBeast on Friday May 24, 2019 @10:22AM (#20001820)
> Diet sodas aren't better for your health though, in fact they may be worse.

"May be worse" is hard to argue when one has direct, obvious negative effects and the other has a series of much more weakly linked possible results.

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Re:Bill to put health warnings on soda and sugary drinks adv... by smileysteve on Friday May 24, 2019 @10:57AM (#20002192)
Here's a journal article that removes that "may" https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/95/4/909/4576821
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Re:Bill to put health warnings on soda and sugary drinks adv... by SketchySeaBeast on Friday May 24, 2019 @11:08AM (#20002308)
I don't see a comparison of that to full sugar drinkers.
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Re:Bill to put health warnings on soda and sugary drinks adv... by throwayEngineer on Friday May 24, 2019 @10:21AM (#20001804)
Citation needed
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Re:Bill to put health warnings on soda and sugary drinks adv... by collyw on Friday May 24, 2019 @10:46AM (#20002070)
Like most of the comments on this thread.
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