“The main problem with diet drinks imo is the sodium salt”
Yeah, that and the aspartame, which can cause all sorts of problems. Then there’s the phosphoric acid, which is bad for bone health.
Yeah, other than that I guess the water and the food coloring and flavoring is not so bad.
Aspartame is made up of three components that you regularly consume in a normal diet. How can these three components (phenylalanine, aspartic acid and methanol) be bad for you when linked together and used as a sweetener, but not be bad for you when consumed in much greater quantities individually in a normal diet?
Then there’s the phosphoric acid, which is bad for bone health.
Colas have no more phosphorus than similar quantities of orange juice. Is consuming orange juice also bad for bone health?
The Framingham study this article cites is fraught with bad science. The authors even state that they can't show causation, but go ahead and suggest it might be good to instigate public health efforts to decrease consumption. Nope, no agenda there. The authors also didn't bother to compare the effects of soft drink consumption with that of any other beverages or foods. Pretty shoddy work, but here it is.