Is Diet Soda Good or Bad for You?

There is a ton of research, and it's all conflicting and contradicting. The weight of evidence suggests diet soda is probably fine. No one should care about my assessment. I'm just a nerd who eats and reads a lot,. And what i can read quite plainly is that the mayo clinic and the harvard school of public health say that diet sodas are probably fine. Those studies are not super reliable. Why aren't they reliable? Well, because they are basically all observational studies. Observational studies are particularly prone to confounding factors. In a situation like this, where you have a product that people are generally consuming because their diet is already unhealthy, eating too many calories isn't