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"This study, as well as other research on the connection between diet beverages and vascular disease, is observational and cannot show cause and effect."

And there we have it. The entire article written around what is actually not a study at all.

In my opinion, it seems to be the case that people who consume diet soda do so because they are trying to be healthier, but don't want to do the real healthy thing of giving up soda altogether.

That lack of discipline would surface in other aspects of their life and contribute to a unhealthy lifestyle as a whole.