These are very skewed facts...these three in particular:
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It leads to weight gain: A University of Texas Health Science Center study found that the more diet sodas a person drank, the greater their risk of becoming overweight. Downing just two or more cans a day increased waistlines by 500 percent.
It increases your risk of heart attack: One University of Miami study found that folks who drank diet soda every day were 44 percent more likely to suffer a heart attack than those who abstained from drinking soda.
It ups your chances of developing diabetes: People with a daily soda habit (even just one or two per day) were more than 25 percent more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than individuals
who had no more than one sugary drink per month.
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Many people who are overweight already are drinking diet soda's whilst tryign to lose weight or to at least not gain any more weight. Overweight people are at greater risk of heart attacks and diabetes as well. It's not like they took a control group of 1000 bodybuilders, started feeding them coke zero to see what happened...
Using ths reasoning that these people have, you could say that because people who bike to work instead of drive cars have less heart attacks, "car ownership may increase the risk of heart attack by 30%"