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For years I only sipped on brown drinks: Morning was a Starbucks Vente Redeye and then around noon that gave way to Diet Coke number one, then two, and three, and possibly more, sometimes five or more in a day. My art director and friend told me that stuff is poison.  It turns out she was right. The first time I gave it up, it was on a ski holiday and I managed to get off the stuff for about six months, thinking it would help me lose my cellulite (I figured there might be a connection between fat cells and sodium or chemicals in my usual diet sodas). It didn t. I jumped back on the Diet Coke train, or in summer, the Fresca habit, but always diet sodas with aspartame. (Knowing what I know now, they should have called them die sodas.) All along, I knew in my heart of hearts that this habit was probably causing me some sort of slow, terrible cancer, which would show up someday. I knew better than to drink artificial sweeteners, as the editor of a major magazine devoted to h

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