The Importance of Diet Coke

"We have other bigger public health challenges to meet. And we should be focusing on those versus, you know, making any sort of regulatory regime," he says. "For a country that's fighting both a mental health crisis and an obesity crisis, it strikes me that a possible carcinogen in Diet Coke is the least of our challenges right now." 'I can't imagine a... No, they're not going to eat it either,' adds Dr. Andrew Weintraub. "'It doesn't get you up and face the day' That's not its purpose.' So what's going to happen there? We just literally are playing this gigantic experiment in the United States?'"