Is Diet Coke ACTUALLY bad for you? The “fridge cigarette”, answered.
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I was quoted in Healf’s piece on this → healf.com/blogs/health-journal/is-diet-coke-bad-for-you If a can of Diet Coke a day is the worst thing in your diet, you’re doing brilliantly. TikTok has started calling it the “fridge cigarette” and the internet has done what the internet does. So this week I’m giving you the actual answer, and it’s probably not the one you’re expecting from a nutritionist. The sweetener isn’t the problem. Two other things are, and almost nobody talks about either of them. In this episode: Why a can of Diet Coke has more caffeine in it than a can of regular Coke, and why that catches people out The study where caffeine six hours before bed wrecked people’s sleep and they didn’t even notice The one change that protects your teeth, which is about how you drink it rather than how much What “possibly carcinogenic” actually means, and why pickled vegetables are in the same category How many cans you’d have to drink every day to hit the actual safety limit Why the studies linking diet drinks to poor health usually have the cause and the effect the wrong way round What the WHO guidance really said, versus how it got reported When swapping to Diet Coke is a genuine win, and the thing I’d rather you fixed first Instagram: @paulthenutritionist.
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