Diet Coke

http://www.naturalnews.com/037772_aspartame_leukemia_lymphoma.html

I too am sorry to hear about your husband's condition.

I did read the article - which is on a rather biased site.
If we look at their sources for information listed, the one that is based on humans says:

CONCLUSION:

Although our findings preserve the possibility of a detrimental effect of a constituent of diet soda, such as aspartame, on select cancers, the inconsistent sex effects and occurrence of an apparent cancer risk in individuals who consume regular soda do not permit the ruling out of chance as an explanation.

More-ever, there is no comment on correlation vs causation in the bits that I saw.
For instance, is your typical diet soda drinker actually likely to have other health issues in the first place?

Also, this abstract (chosen carefully by me, easy to do that )

We also observed an unexpected elevated risk of NHL (RR: 1.66; 95% CI: 1.10, 2.51) with a higher consumption of regular, sugar-sweetened soda in men but not in women. In contrast, when sexes were analyzed separately with limited power, neither regular nor diet soda increased risk of leukemia

Dr. Mercola (I know a lot of people don't agree with him on some issues) explains the difference the study found between men and women as well as his response to the study:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/11/07/aspartame-causes-blood-cancer.aspx

Read the original article it does not say that aspartame is the cause, the conclusion is weak as quoted above and the related risk being evaluated remain very low.
In that study the risk was actually HIGHER with regular, no diet soda. 1.66 vs 1.33.

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2012/10/23/ajcn.111.030833.abstract

theres no sodium in diet coke. yeah its terrible for you. but i say drink up!

theres no sodium in diet coke. yeah its terrible for you. but i say drink up!

have you ever read a label on a bottle? there are 30mg of sodium per 8 oz of diet coke
http://productnutrition.thecoca-colacompany.com/products/diet-coke

The nutritionists usually refer to "full leaded/sugar" soda's, alcohol, and/or juice drinks as "liquid calories with no nutritional advantage whatsoever".

Ultimately, water is best. If you're hooked on soda's now, you can try to go to diet soda's in the interim while weaning off of them. I've heard the sweeteners used in diet soda's are typically not conducive to weight loss efforts. But don't know if there's any truth to it or not.

I usually try to limit my soda intake to one a day at lunch, and it's a diet coke 98% of the time. There are no calories, but there is sodium in it.

That's not 0 sodium, but it's a pretty small amount... Heck, the cup of skim milk that I use in my cereal every morning has 120 mg of sodium.

theres no sodium in diet coke. yeah its terrible for you. but i say drink up!

have you ever read a label on a bottle? there are 30mg of sodium per 8 oz of diet coke
http://productnutrition.thecoca-colacompany.com/products/diet-coke

That skim milk also has protein, potassium, vitamins, and calcium. It is much better nutritionally than Diet soda.

It didn't hinder the process for me. I like Coke Zero better than Diet Coke, though.

^^^^^^^ also

It's bad - not good.

I have the coke zero about once maybe twice a week when I'm PMS'ing (TMI - I know) because it is sweet, otherwise I don't touch it.

Either way, they both use 'sweetners' which are horrible and make you crave actual sugar even more.

Try having Perrier for the carbonation.

I like diet Dr. Pepper. But i stopped drinking it. I think I'm having physical reactions to the aspartame.

I have my one Coke Zero everyday (unless drinking and then it is multiple Crown and Zero)

I recently gave up my life long obsession (35+ years) of Diet Pepsi. Actually to be more accurate, I've given up anything with nutrasweet. 26 days with no nutrasweet. The first 14 days were the hardest. Cravings like you wouldn't believe. Today, I still crave it, but not as much as I used to. Some of the studies I've read state that it can take up to 90 days for nutrasweet to clear your system.

I've also stopped drinking energy drinks of any sort and have only had one monster nitrous in 7 days.