Oct 29, 2015 11:43 AM EDT
The Best and Worst Diet Sodas Ranked

WARNING: This article might crush your dream of losing weight. Prepared now? Alright. The most popular weight-loss product in America was scientifically proven to actually encourage weight-gain.

Yes, your diet soda makes you fat.

According to a recent study, daily diet soda drinkers get 2 ½ more inches of belly fat eevery 10 years than those who don't drink diet soda. Despite having no or lesser calories, these tricky drinks make you gain more weight.

Miriam Jacobson, RD, CDN, explains to Yahoo Health that diet drinks cause insulin to be released in the gut. Insulin is the body's primary fat-storage hormone, thus it will have the body hold onto any extra fat.

Just like regular sodas, diet colas also damage the immune system because their acidity causes disorder with our gut bacteria. And the dark coloring in many sodas contains artificial phosphorous that leaches calcium from our bones.

Yahoo looked through the ingredients of the most popular diet sodas in America and ranked 38 of them by measuring the amount of aspartamane, the most pervasive sweetener, in them. Researchers claim that aspartame is linked to brain tumors and lymphoma. Yahoo gave demerits to diet sodas with higher aspartame counts and gave high marks for drinks with natural ingredients.

Now...drumroll please! Here are the top 38 diet sodas on the list:

38. Diet Mountain Dew 12 fl oz, 0 calories, 50 mg sodium

37. Tab 12 fl oz, 0 calories, 0 g sugar

36. Fresca Original Citrus 12 fl oz, 0 calories, 0 g sugar

 35. Coca-Cola Life 12 oz, 90 calories, 24 g sugar       

34. Pepsi True 12 fl. oz., 60 calories, 16 g sugar

33. Pepsi Next 12 fl oz, 60 calories, 15 g sugar

32. RC Ten 12 fl oz., 10 calories, 3 g sugar

31. Dr. Pepper Ten 12 fl oz, 12 calories, 2.4 g sugar

30. Sunkist Ten 12 fl oz., 10 calories, 2 g sugar     

29. A&W Ten 12 fl oz., 10 calories, 2 g sugar

28. Canada Dry Ten 12 fl oz., 10 calories, 2 g sugar

27. 7-Up Ten 12 fl oz, 10 calories, 2 g sugar

26. Pepsi Max 12 fl oz, 0 calories, 0 g sugar

25. Mello Yello Zero

24. Fanta Zero 12 fl oz, 0 calories, 0 g sugar

23. Diet Sunkist 12 fl oz, 0 calories, 0 sugar

22. Pibb Zero 0 calories, 0 sugar

21. Diet Barq's Root Beer 12 fl oz, 0 calories, 0 g sugar

20. Diet Mug Root Beer 12 fl oz, 0 calories, 0 g sugar

19. Diet Dr. Pepper Cherry 0 calories, 0 g sugar

18. Diet Dr. Pepper Cherry Vanilla 0 calories, 0 g sugar

17. Dr. Brown's Diet Black Cherry 0 calories, 0 sugar

16. Diet Dr. Pepper 12 fl oz, 0 calories, 0 g sugar

15. Diet Mug Cream Soda 12 fl oz, 0 calories, 0 sugar

14. Coke Zero 12 fl oz, 0 calories, 0 g sugar

13. Diet Coke Cherry 12 fl oz, 0 calories, 0 g sugar  

12. Diet Coke with Lime 12 fl oz, 0 calories, 0 g sugar

11. Diet Coke 12 fl oz, 0 calories, 0 g sugar

10. Diet Coke with Splenda 12 fl oz, 0 calories, 0 g sugar

9. Diet Pepsi 12 fl oz, 0 calories, 0 g sugar

8. Caffeine Free Diet Coke 12 fl oz, 0 calories, 0 g sugar

7. Diet Rite

6. Caffeine Free Diet Pepsi 0 calories, 0 g sugar

5. Diet 7-Up 12 fl oz, 0 calories, 0 g sugar

4. Sprite Zero 12 fl oz, 0 calories, 0 g sugar

3. Zevia Ginger Root Beer 12 fl oz, 0 calories, 0 g sugar

2. Hint Kick 12 fl oz, 0 calories, 0 g sugar

And the number one diet soda is...Bai5 Bubbles! 11.5 fl. oz. of the Bolivia Black Cherry flavor: 5 calories, 1 g sugar

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