Ditch diet sodas?

     Two new studies out show how diet soda drinkers pack on the pounds via their calorie-free consumption.  If you kick back more than two a day, you could bust your belt size up to five times more than people who avoid diet sodas altogether!  The thought is also that the aspartame (or artificial sweetner) in the diet drink triggers the appetite.  But unlike regular sugar sodas, it does nothing that will squelch the appetite.

     So, sugar-laden sodas are a no-no and now diet sodas are on the outs…what do these researchers say is okay to sip?  Water, of course.