What is so bad about diet soda?

Nothing is bad with diet soda.. Just drink your recommended amount of water a day. Its people that drink a 12 pack of soda a day and no water that need to think about switching their habits.

It's horrible...it tastes like cat piss...or what I would assume cat piss tastes like.

There have been a few studies that show that consuming a lot of artificial sweeteners, especially aspartame can cause a lot of health issues. Some people are very sensitive to these chemicals. You can do a web search yourself and I'm sure find all sorts of articles published as well as symptoms that can occur. I think in moderation, it's probably fine, worrying and stressing over these things probably causes more cancer than the product itself.

I only drink diet soda occasionally, rather than every day. I prefer to not be addicted to caffeine. But as long as it doesn't affect your sleep, it's a fairly harmless addiction.

It's the Aspartame. Horrible for you.

Because Aspartame can lead to cancer.

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/artificial-sweeteners

Is there an association between artificial sweeteners and cancer?


Questions about artificial sweeteners and cancer arose when early studies showed that cyclamate in combination with saccharin caused bladder cancer in laboratory animals. However, results from subsequent carcinogenicity studies (studies that examine whether a substance can cause cancer) of these sweeteners have not provided clear evidence of an association with cancer in humans. Similarly, studies of other FDA-approved sweeteners have not demonstrated clear evidence of an association with cancer in humans.

It's really unnatural and has a lot of chemicals, but I love me some Diet Dr. Pepper!

Nothing is bad about diet soda. Really. People come up with all sorts of excuses because on this "journey" (hate that term) they like to classify things as good and bad and they need that feeling of being pure from all badness to feel like they're living their lives right. That self righteousness of "nsv i haven't drink diet soda for a whole week! Gold star for meeeee!" Its...getting to the point of ridiculousness.

In comparison to daily goals and actual percentages of sodium that would do you harm, diet pop has very little. Really. You'd have to drink cases of diet pop a day for your sodium to be so out of wack you'd code or something. The "diet soda will kill you!" mantra is the same fear mongering anti-carb people have done for years. As if you have carbs you'll blow up like a blowfish over night.

There has been study after study done on this and after all these years, no clear consensus among the scientific community. They are looking extremely hard for that new thing to scare people and for whatever reason, can't find it. You might find something hear or there online that'll say "grrr diet coke is bad here's proof!" but it really needs to be a peer reviewed study with more of a scientific backing than these small little testing quiries. You don't think the news would be all over this "diet coke is going to kill you" crap if it was true?! If this had any credence to it at all, there would be massive recalls and diet coke taken from store shelves pending further investigation with wall to wall coverage of this new national crisis.

People have lost just as much weight while drinking diet soda everyday than those who haven't. That includes me. Losing weight itself is calories in calories out. Health wise, diet soda has no discernible effect. Juice is just as bad for you as regular pop. Are you gonna drink water and unsweetened tea for the rest of your life?

The only clear way diet pop is bad for some people is if it's a trigger to binge. Otherwise, go crazy

The taste.

The taste.

This^

Some sodas have a lot of sodium. I for one haven't have any soda at all in about 7 months.

Compare the sodium level of diet soft drinks to milk. The comparison may surprise you...

http://examine.com/faq/is-diet-soda-bad-for-you.html

http://examine.com/faq/is-diet-soda-bad-for-you.html

This put everything out there so clearly, i think it should be a go-to for people that have this question.

Here's a little from it:

"Simply put...
There are no studies that indicate any long-term health risks from drinking diet soda. Diet Soda (defined as calorie free carbonated beverages sweetened with aspartame, sucralose, acesulfame-potassium, or other non-caloric or minimally caloric sweeteners) is not harmful to health, well-being, or body composition.[1]

There is no evidence that diet soda inhibits fat loss, or that it even spikes insulin levels to levels that would be detrimental to health."

And it goes on talking about how the studies that try to directly link diet soda to cancer and such are flawed in their approaches.

Yeah it's the sweeteners (aspartame etc) that some people have a problem with. Apparently they've been linked to developing cancer, MS and other things. But hasn't everything? I'm sure if you just have a can of it occasionally it won't harm you.

No sugar in it.