Originally Posted by Atticus

Got it. You have absolutely zero facts or studies to back up your "common knowledge", just you've seen fat people drinking it. You're quite the expert on the subject.

Even the study cited above raises questions about the experiment and it's validity and states the reason might be because people who drink the artificial sweeteners then have a higher craving for additional sweets and then consume those, thus causing the higher risk of heart disease and stroke.

That's like saying guys with small dicks buy fast cars to over compensate and then race them on the freeway and crash more. Then a study comes out linking highway fatalities to guys with small dicks.