Medically reviewed by Maggie Moon, MS, RD Diet soda is often thought of as a healthier alternative to regular soda because it ...

A total of 81 participants in a weight-management program, who regularly consumed diet beverages, were randomly assigned to ...

We don’t love labeling foods and beverages “good” or “bad” — not even soda. This sort of black-and-white thinking doesn’t do ...

Diet soda is a zero-calorie, sugar-free version of a carbonated beverages. For example: to give the diet soda its classic sweet taste, Diet Coke contains aspartame and Splenda, ...

Diet soda does not add nutritional value to your diet and not all options are low in calories or sugar-free. It may also contribute to certain health conditions. Diet sodas are popular beverages ...

"To Diet Pepsi consumers, removing aspartame is their No. 1 one concern," says Seth Kaufman, senior vice president of Pepsi and flavors, in a phone interview. "We're listening to consumers.

Answering the question of whether diet soda helps or hinders dieters' efforts to lose weight has been the focus of much research. And buzz. Unfortunately, the answer is still murky. On one hand ...

Pepsi initially ditched its diet recipe that replaced aspartame with sucralose, but it didn't go over well with Diet Pepsi loyalists so now it's bringing the original recipe back.

Unfortunately, diet soda is more in vogue than ever. Kids consume the stuff at more than double the rate of last decade, according to research in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Occaional diet soda drinkers added an average of 2.11 centimeters (.83 inches) 1.83 inches to their waist circumferences, while the non-drinkers added .8 inches .77 centimeters (.3 inches) over ...