Does diet soda give you cancer?

In addition, some studies indicate sugar substitutes like aspartame, sucralose and saccharin, which are commonly found in diet drinks, can throw off your body's natural metabolic processes. read more

Plus, physical activity can provide the energy you may get from sodas. Avoid other sweetened beverages “Flavored coffee drinks, sweetened teas or fruit juices, energy drinks and most bottled beverages contain a lot of the same unhealthy additives that are in soda,” Maxson says. read more

So Mueller and his colleagues evaluated 60,524 men and women enrolled in the Singapore Chinese Health Study, begun in 1993, for up to 14 years, looking at their diet and whether they got cancer. They asked all participants about food intake, including sodas and juices. read more

A 12 ounce can of diet soda usually contains about 192 milligrams of aspartame and a packet of the tabletop sweetener contains about 35mg. An adult weighing 165 pounds would have to drink more than 19 cans of diet soda a day or consume more than 107 packets to go over the recommended level. read more