# I drink a 2 liter of diet soda a day. Is that bad?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 30, 2006, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-drink-a-2-liter-of-diet-soda-a-day-is-that-bad/350623 "2006-03-30T23:28:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-drink-a-2-liter-of-diet-soda-a-day-is-that-bad/350623/41 "2012-03-09T03:13:45Z")

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> [@sqweels](#):
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> I drink Diet Rite which according to the label has no caffeine, no aspartame, and no sodium. What’s left in it that will kill me?

Boredom

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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-drink-a-2-liter-of-diet-soda-a-day-is-that-bad/350623/42 "2012-03-09T03:23:32Z")

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> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#):
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> What took you so long?

He was drunk.

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**Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-drink-a-2-liter-of-diet-soda-a-day-is-that-bad/350623/43 "2012-03-09T10:42:30Z")

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> [@Michael63129](#):
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> It is probably healthier though due to other nutrients (many people are vitamin D and calcium deficient), and certainly much better than what I drank as a child and teenager (2-3 cans of regular Mountain Dew a day, mostly at meals, for which I now have a glass of milk (about the same number of calories, but not empty ones), and water otherwise). Of course, I am talking about reduced fat (or skim) milk (it is also [better than sports drinks](http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/forget-sports-drinks-milk-is-the-best-way-to-recover-from-exercise-6602420.html) for rehydration).

That one study was probably funded by the milk industry; the link does not say how many people were in the study; and general conclusions cannot be made after only one (and probably a small) study.

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