Diet Cola Is Your BFF

You’re healthy so that means no guzzling high calorie soda, instead, when you’re in the mood for bubbles, you guzzle zero calorie diet soda. Better right? Wrong! That diet soda may be free of calories, but it doesn’t mean they’re all that great for your health. In a study by the American Diabetes Association found that older people who drank lots of diet soda saw their waistlines expand five times more over a decade than their peers who didn’t drink diet soda at all, while another showed that mice fed the artificial sweetener aspartame had higher blood-sugar levels.