Diet sodas are often marketed as healthier alternatives to regular, full-calorie sodas.

As we all know, excess calories can lead to obesity, which can cause a host of other health problems.

By replacing the sugar in regular soda with artificial sweeteners such as aspartame and sucralose, soda drinkers can avoid the calories that they would typically get in regular soda.

So, does that make the diet drinks healthier? No, not really.

Not only is there zero nutritional value in diet soda, these diet drinks come with their own risks, and many of them are very similar to the risks of drinking regular soda.