That’s a matter of opinion, at best, since “healthy” is a very relative term.
Drinking 12 cups of coffee every day is arguably unhealthy, but that hasn’t stopped you from doing it. Some people say TRT isn’t healthy and will cause heart attacks and cancer, but you’ve likely researched enough to realize that they’re wrong.
Urban legend based off bad science: The Not-So Scary Truth About Sweeteners - Diet and Nutrition - COMMUNITY - T NATION
"These three studies linked aspartame with leukemia, lymphoma, and kidney cancers. The studies involved mice, though, and a lot of scientists maintain that the studies were also shoddily conducted.
Even if you choose to give those studies more credence than they might deserve, you have to weigh and contrast them against the findings of the National Cancer Institute. The NCI examined the cancer rates of more than 500,000 people who drank aspartame beverages and they didn’t have higher cancer rates than non-aspartame drinking people."
This is a sentence I’d expect to see from a pre-contest bodybuilder with paper-thin skin having his first cheat meal in 13 weeks, not some dude “on a diet aiming for weight loss”.
Have some perspective. You sound as bad as the guys who ask if they should pack a cooler to bring their own food to Aunt Dottie’s Thanksgiving. Fucking no.
Just to drop one more mind-expander in here, give this a read:
In particular: "Peters and associates did a one-year study comparing the effects of a group that drank artificially sweetened sodas to a group that drank water. The program consisted of 12 weeks of dieting followed by 40 weeks of maintenance.
The group that drank diet drinks lost more weight during the 12-week weight loss period. They also had greater reductions in waist size, along with reductions in cholesterol, LDL, triglycerides, and blood pressure than the water group."
So have your Pepsi but try not to cream your jeans.
You can find them here, but take them with a proverbial grain of salt. They’re due to be re-worked and improved for accuracy.