Long before Diet Pepsi ruled the aisles, a short-lived 1960s brand changed the soda landscape. Meet the forgotten drink that started the low-calorie revolution.

Millions of people reach for diet soda as a seemingly safe swap for sugar-sweetened drinks, especially those managing blood ...

Large observational studies have found a correlation between diet sodas and negative health outcomes like Type II diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular issues. But short-term controlled experiments ...

Diet soda is better for blood sugar than regular soda because it does not deliver a rapid sugar load. Replacing sugar-sweetened soda with diet or other low-calorie options can help reduce overall ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic bottles of Diet Coke and Coca-Cola Cherry Zero Sugar on a supermarket shelf, with a promotion sign offering "Buy 2, Get 2 ...

Growing up, Olivia Dreizen Howell, 39, “lived on” diet soda. So did her family. At a family reunion in 1996, everyone sported T-shirts with their shared surname in Diet Coke-can font. “We drank Diet ...

Let’s get fizz-ical. A Toronto-based registered dietitian has evaluated the healthfulness of the no-calorie diet sodas Coke Zero and Diet Coke — and the results are soda-pressing for Coke fans. “Both ...

(CNN) – Nearly 2,000 cases of Diet Coke, Sprite and Fanta Orange have been recalled due to possible “foreign material” in the cans. The Food & Drug Administration said the impacted beverages were ...

Drinking as little as one can of diet soda a day may increase the risk of nonalcohol fatty liver disease by 60%, while drinking a sugary beverage could raise the risk by 50%, a new unpublished study ...

In my last post, Diet Soda and the Brain, I described how artificial sweeteners like sucralose may affect hunger, memory, and gut-brain signaling. That raised an obvious question: If diet soda isn't ...

Did you ever take a swig of aspartame-sweetened diet soda and have it taste nasty? Sour, metallic, and vile, but not sweet. It's gone bad but it's not bad for you. Here's why. Ever had a Diet Coke ...