Aspartame and You: Diet Soda will not give you cancer

So, this subject comes up in a lot of posts. Whenever someone mentions they struggle with drinking too much soda, someone will suggest they drink diet soda to help curb that, and another person will blast diet soda as being "dangerous", it'll give you cancer!

Now, I am by no means suggesting that diet soda is good for you. It's still going to rot your teeth, plenty of other problems with it.

But it will not be giving you cancer. The amount of aspartame in your average can of diet soda is very low, because the stuff is just insanely sweet. In order to consume the accepted daily intake, which is the suggested limit on how much you should have in a day, you would have to drink over 30 cans of soda a day. Now if you're drinking 30 cans of soda a day, you've got a bigger problem on your hands.

Diet soda still isn't GOOD for you, it is still soda after all. And for health, not drinking soda is better than drinking soda. The research is mixed on how artificial sweeteners actually affect long term health and weight loss. Some studies do show a slight reaction to artificial sweeteners and insulin response. Does that mean regular soda and diet soda have the same effect on the body? No. Because even if the insulin response was the same, the diet soda still doesn't have calories.

If you can quit soda, that is 100% the best option. If you struggle with giving up the bubbly beverage, switching from full calorie soda to zero calorie soda is a change worth making.

Now many people will argue that diet soda does XYZ, causes cravings/binging/yada yada. But the truth is, REGULAR SODA DOES THE SAME GODDAMN THINGS!!!

Let me reiterate that point: Every negative attribute given to diet soda is also present in full calorie soda. So if you're drinking regular soda, you're getting the exact same problems as people drinking diet soda, PLUS 150-200 calories per can.

So if the ONLY change you make is switching from full calorie soda to zero calorie soda, you are saving yourself 15-20 pounds of calories per year, PER CAN.

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