Your diet soft drink may be making you fat

Researchers believe that there is a link between drinking diet soft drinks and weight gain. Photo: Shutterstock

Regularly drinking diet soda could impact waist size, say the authors of a study linking calorie-free colas to greater abdominal obesity in adults 65 years of age and older.

The study, which was published in the Journal of American Geriatrics, is among the first to focus on the effect of artificial sweeteners in an ageing population.