Artificially sweetened soft drinks may raise the risk of heart disease and death in postmenopausal women. A study that followed tens of thousands of postmenopausal women for over 10 years has linked a higher consumption of diet drinks to an increased risk of stroke, heart disease and death. Researchers revealed that a high intake of diet drinks among postmenopausal women with no history of heart disease or diabetes was linked to a more than twofold increase in the risk of strokes arising from blockages in small arteries in the brain. Postmenopausal women with obesity who drank two or more diet drinks each day also had twice the risk of stroke than those who drank fewer than one per week.
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