Ditch the Diet Soda

Oh noes!  It seems that my mother was right!  She always claimed that diet soda was even worse for you than the regular kind.  I've always stayed away from the stuff as a result, but I felt a little silly since there wasn't any clear evidence either way.  Now a new study has come out in support of Mother's diet soda ban.  In a large study over more than a decade, scientists found that diet soda drinkers' waists grew 70% more than those who did not imbibe.  Even worse, those who drank a lot of diet soda, more than a few per day, had a much larger increase in girth.  Perhaps this helps to explain why a certain segment of the population continues to reach new highs (or lows?) in the weight department.  It seems clear that soda (both kinds if you ask me) really must go.