Diet Soda Linked To Depression

American Voices • Opinion • ISSUE 49•03 • Jan 14, 2013

A new study has found a link between clinical depression and the frequent consumption of sweetened fruit drinks, soft drinks, and iced tea, with diet products in particular being associated with higher incidences of the mood disorder. What do you think?

“Listen, please just tell me what I have to drink to get my life back on track.”
Wally Strom –
Unemployed
“This doesn’t make sense. How could fruit punch or iced tea make you sad when they have all those pictures of suns on the bottle?”
Debby Balsam –
Roof Bolter
“Ooh, is there a drink associated with being tall?”
Julio Moreno –
Velvet Steamer

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