Diet soda isn’t doing anything helpful for your diet. People who are starting to watch what they eat often figure that switching from regular soda to diet soda will help them reach their health and weight loss goals in some capacity, but new research has shown this may not be true. “…people who drank diet beverages and coffee consumed fewer calories every day than drinkers of alcohol and sugary beverages, they ate a higher proportion of their daily calories from discretionary foods.” Discretionary foods in this study were defined as foods that do not need to be present in a diet (cookies, chips, etc.). Researchers hypothesized that because diet soda drinkers think they are making a healthier choice, they counter their healthier choice with frequent unhealthy caloric splurges, reversing the effects they want and potentially damaging their health. 

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