Diet soda linked to heart disease

Here's another story that The Media is never going to touch ever again after today.

Yet another study has found ill effects from diet soft drinks. This study says that women who drink 2 or more diet sodas a day are 30% more likely to suffer a heart attack or cardiovascular event - and 50% more likely to die. It also says that those who drink the most diet beverages were more likely to get diabetes or high blood pressure.

NBC reports, "The findings, being presented at a meeting of the American College of Cardiology, don't suggest that the drinks themselves are killers." Uh, yes they do, NBC. That's exactly what the findings suggest. Literacy is the key to many doors.

Remember this the next time some zillionaire wants to pass a beverage tax that exempts diet soda and acts like it's some great public health revolution.

(Source: http://www.cnbc.com/id/101536768)