Diet Coke
It’s a hot day, so you reach for a cold diet coke and find instant refreshment. You are all the more refreshed because you know that the calories of regular soda are not there. You don’t have to worry about running off those extra few calories while you are sipping sweetness during a well deserved break from the day. Maybe you’ve chosen a caffeine free diet coke to make life even easier for your body. Without the caffeine, the taste is still great, but there aren’t any risks of a diet coke addiction, right? Just sit back, relax and enjoy your ice cold diet coke bottle of bliss.

The diet coke commercials would have you believe the above scenario, but do you? Maybe you wonder, based on diet coke ingredients, “Is diet coke bad for you, (Or me for that matter)? For people with diabetes, diet coke is actually the safe answer for a carbonated beverage craving because it will not affect blood sugar and therefore insulin levels. On the other hand, the soda pop industry does not make ‘healthy’ drinks and diet coke is not an exception. The diet coke logo is innocent looking enough, but other than the lack of sugar, diet coke syrup doesn’t make diet coke any better for you than any other similar product. Water, milk and 100% juices are the drinks that are good for you. Sometimes, those things are not excatly what you want though. You may drink the diet coke anyway, or maybe you prefer not to drink diet beverages. Nevertheless, diet coke can be as much fun as the diet coke pictures in the advertisements.

Go ahead and get a diet coke can, or a whole case of them and try out some diet coke experiments. Maybe you would like to try out meat tenderizing or denture cleaning. A diet coke cake is rich and gooey, but again, the sugar of a regular coke cake is absent. So eat and enjoy. Try a rum and diet coke as long as you are over 21 and drink responsibly. Don’t worry about the calories until you try and think about the calories in a rum and diet coke float! There are many interesting ways to try a diet coke and let yourself be truly refreshed.