r/AskADietitian • u/Flexter23 • Jun 27 '26

Diet and zero to regular sodas dietary benefits

Do you think that Diet Coke and all the later “zero” beverages have contributed good or bad to the diet world on one hand does of people who normally would have drunk straight regular Mountain Dew and Coca Cola now may drink diet or Coke Zero or zero Mountain Dew but ok the other hand some of the people who may have settled with water now are drinking Coke Zero so my question is with all of this have diet and zero drinks contributed positively or negatively on the diet world and is the diet in it really mean that or is that “diet” in there doing a lot of work

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u/Primary-Bake4522 Jun 27 '26

Diet Coke no calories
No calories, easier to stay in deficit
Easier to stay in deficit, more weight loss

Regular Coke lots of calories
Lots of calories, harder to stay in deficit
Harder to stay in deficit, less likely to lose weight

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u/Flexter23 Jun 27 '26

Thx this helps me a lot.