This week, we learned that President Donald Trump reportedly thinks Diet Coke is good for him because it kills grass — and therefore it must also kill cancer cells.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, Trump’s administrator for Medicare and Medicaid, replied by saying, “I’m not even going to argue this right now,” and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center declined to comment — which should tell you everything you need to know.
But diet soda does have its fair share of devotees who may wonder about its impact on health. There are valid reasons to drink it — sometimes it’s the flavor, and for others it’s the fact that it’s sugar-free. After all, you’re not getting a dose of high-fructose corn syrup hitting your blood sugar the way normal soda does.
But it’s still important to monitor how much you’re drinking. The rapper Fat Joe recently admitted to drinking between 30 to 40 cans of Diet Pepsi per day, and that got us wondering: How much soda is too much diet soda? To find out, we spoke with experts to learn what drinking too much diet soda can do to your body.
First, a look at the different types of artificial sweeteners in diet soda:
