Diet soda is often thought of as a healthier alternative to regular soda because it's sugar-free. It uses sugar substitutes like aspartame, making the beverage free from calories and added sugars.

Once again today, a health story about fizzy drinks is being widely shared online. Some of the newspapers went big with the study too - which claimed two diet drinks a day could be linked to ...

Simon Spichak finished his MSc at University College Cork, where he studied the interactions between the microbes in the gut and the brain. He became interested in science communication during his ...

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Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: In the early 1960s, a new kind of beverage took the stage.It wasn't a new shape, or color, or flavor. No, this was diet soda. And It. Was.

Research has also linked high fructose consumption, a type of sugar commonly found in sodas, to increased visceral fat levels ...

Sugary sodas have lots of calories, and add very little nutrition to your diet. Is sugar from soda worse for you than sugar from other foods? Yes. The same amount of sugar in, fruit for example ...

When you're dragging, it's tempting to reach for a drink that promises to put some pep in your step. But are energy drinks a healthiest way to get a boost? Here's the truth. Are energy drinks healthy?