“Can I have a double cheeseburger, with a large order of fries and diet Coke.”

Hey, might as well go all the way and make it a regular Coke.

The new fad now a days is ordering a diet soda with your over intake of calories thinking that you’re doing something healthy for yourself, but in reality it’s the same garbage as drinking a regular soda.

The effects of diet soda are just as bad as drinking regular soda. Its considered 100 percent nutrition free and it is linked to cause diabetes and obesity.

According to study from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio presented eight years of research with the links between diabetes and obesity:

•    36.5% for up to ½ can each day
•    54.5% for one to two cans each day
•    57.1% for more than two cans each day

Diet soda is harmful in every way and it gets on my nerves when people say its part their healthy lifestyle now a days.

If people want to be healthy and change their lives for the better they should consider other alternatives to getting healthy like drinking more water.

If they still need something sweet in their drinks they are flavored waters or Crystal Light makes packets to sweeten their drinks with different flavors.

Sure diet soda has less calories than most soda out there, but don’t get fooled by that zero. Diet soda is an alternative to people who are too lazy to give up regular soda.

In small amounts it does no damage but with the way Americans live today there’s no such thing as a “small amount”, they get all they can take.

Drinking diet soda isn’t the best route to take if you’re on a path to weight loss. It actually can make one gain weight since the sweetners in the soda make the craving of snacks and sweets higher.

One of the main ingredients in diet soda is aspartame that gives diet soda its sweet kick.

This ingredient is 180 times sweeter than regular sugar and some animal research has been done that consumption of high amounts of aspartame is linked to brain tumors.

The FDA maintains that the sweetener is safe, but reported side effects include dizziness, headaches, diarrhea, memory loss, and mood changes.

Also, say goodbye to that dazzling white smile since diet soda can also lead to bad teeth. Soda in general can damage your teeth, but since diet sodas are far more acidic and contain a higer dosage of articial sweetners they are bound to create more damage to your teeth in the long run.

I see diet soda as joke, something that this industry has created and tricked its people into thinking that they are doing something healthy for themselves.

After all it’s all about making more money and it’s sad to say that some companies lie and cheat their way to the top.

The health for their consumers is no matter of importance for them, so its up to us to make sure that our decisions help us in the long run and better our lives in every way possible.

Some people might argue that they are diabetic and the only kind of soda they can drink is diet.

Give me a break, you already have diabetes you are just making your situation worse. By drinking diet soda a person with diabetes may increase their A1C levels which in short means the measurements of our blood glucose level. 

It tells us the percentage of our hemoglobin — the protein in our red blood cells that carry oxygen — has glucose sticking to. 

To get to the point: the less glucose the bloodstream has the better.

So bottom line: skip the diet soda, you’re not fooling anyone, grab a bottle of  water instead.