Same, I don't think it's a good habit to regularly drink sugary drinks even if they have "fake" sugar in them. It's just these companies finding ways for us to consume more of their product without the guilt of calories.

When I'm thirsty I drink water. And very rarely will I drink something else with real sugar like juice, a beer, or even rarer an actual soda.

There's no evidence of aspartame being harmful to humans and there's been a shit ton of research on it from various people

In the end, the aspartame in the coke Zero is likely less harmful than the sugar, and I would pick a coke Zero every day of the week over coke with sugar.

Sugar is just not healthy.

Regulatory bodies tend to act purely as pipelines getting people jobs in the industry they are supposed to be regulating.

Profits before people, as always.