New Warning For Older Adults About Diet Soda

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – There's a new warning about older adults and diet soda.

Research on nearly 800 adults 65 and older links drinking diet soda to a rise in abdominal obesity.

Doctors in Texas say the increase in waist circumference of diet soda drinkers is triple that of non-drinkers.

Those doctors warn that excess belly fat can cause a greater risk of metabolic and cardiovascular problems.

The research is published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.