Article: Diet drinks help the waist but not kidneys.(News)

Byline: Irish Daily Mail Reporter

DRINKING too many artificially sweetened soft drinks may damage the kidneys, a study suggests. Researchers looked at the effect of soft drinks on more than 3,000 women taking part in the Nurses' Health Study, a major lifestyle and health investigation in the U.S..

They compared drinks that were sweetened with sugar and those that had been artificially sweetened.

The results showed that two or more artificially sweetened drinks a day doubled the risk of a fasterthan-average decline in kidney function.

No such association was found with sugar-sweetened drinks.

The link persisted after taking ...

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