Can I drink diet soda?

It’s not recommended because it doesn’t have high nutritional value and it usually contains poor-quality artificial sweeteners.

For example, Diet Coke, Coke Zero and Coke Zero Sugar have the same ingredients except for their sweeteners. Both have aspartame which affects the gut, increasing the risk for insulin resistance and diabetes. It also has caramel coloring created in a process where they heat sugar with an ammonia compound to produce an end product called AGE or Advanced Glycation Endproducts, which create sticky proteins in the body.