Regular Soda vs Diet Soda — Which is Worse for Your Health?
Most cola and other sodas are packed with staggering amounts of unhealthy high fructose corn syrup or fattening sugar.
With this in mind, is it worth making the switch from regular soda to diet soda with aspartame to help reduce health problems? This page has the answers.
A Comparison of Regular Soda vs Diet Soda
Both regular and diet cola share phosphoric acid, sulfite-ammonia caramel color 150d and caffeine as ingredients. Given this, there is no reduction in the potential damage done to your digestive processes by these chemicals to be had in switching for regular soda to diet soda.
Both have been shown to be very acidic in testing with regular cola having a pH of around 2.5 and diet cola usually testing at a slightly better 3.2 pH.
The main difference, if you were to switch from regular soda to diet soda, would be swapping out the very high amounts of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) or sugar for the artificial sweetener aspartame.
A common, but still relatively unknown cause of digestive problems is fructose malabsorption.
When I decided to give up coffee recently, I believe I was able to stop drinking it quite easily because I had the three things from my previous post on 
Legal or not, coffee is an addictive drug that affects both your body and brain chemistry. Anyone who drinks coffee regularly and cannot go more than a couple of days without ‘really feeling like’ (needing) a cup is very likely addicted to it.
Giving up caffeine often leads to withdrawal symptoms, including irritability, fatigue, difficulty concentrating and caffeine withdrawal headaches.
After doing the research for this post, I gave up coffee. I’m done with it.
Peppermint tea is a very useful tea to drink for indigestion, gastrointestinal problems and preventing flatulence.
The effects of peppermint tea are generally lighter and gentler than peppermint oil capsules. The tea is very refreshing, doesn’t need to be sweetened and has a real ‘pick me up’ effect whenever you drink it.
Charcoal capsules may well be one of the best emergency flatulence remedies available.
Fennel is an important herb that has been used safely for many thousands of years in Chinese, Indian, Arabian and Western medicines.
Vegetables are an important part of a healthy diet and provide many valuable nutritional benefits.
Black walnuts are a well known human parasite killer and were traditionally used by Native Americans for internal cleansing and digestive problems.
This is a great tasting warm salad for getting more nutritious pumpkin and pumpkin seeds into your diet. It’s full of superfoods, very healthy and quite filling as well.
Avocados are an amazing superfood with a rich flavor and an impressive list of health benefits. Here’s why avocado is healthy and some seriously good reasons to get more of them into your diet.
Parsley is a green superfood so rich in vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and other nutrients that eating it is like using a multivitamin supplement – only one that actually works.
Papaya is an excellent source of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, phytonutrients and digestive enzymes.
Here is a healthy and crunchy pumpkin seed pesto recipe that is full of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids and other nutrition. Use it wherever you’d use normal pesto for a strong and rich taste that is really good for you.
This is a very simple and really healthy soup for the cold winter months and it’s good to have something much better for you than pumpkin pie to make with pumpkins.
Here is a rich and tangy pumpkin and garlic soup recipe full of health nutrients to warm you up over winter and keep away colds and flu bugs.