Diet soda is an odd part of food and drink culture. To many people, zero-calorie or zero-sugar drinks don't taste better than the original version, and it seems like there's always some media buzz ...

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.

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.

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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 ...

Soda is not a health food. You know, soda is usually this concoction of water, sugar and a bunch of chemicals that most of the time you don’t even know what they are, the flavorings and ...