Coke vs Diet Coke

Today I began pondering the whole Coke vs Diet Coke thing. Coke apparently has 7 teaspoons of sugar in it, but diet coke has weird chemicals that can rot your insides. I feel I should be drinking diet coke, caus coke is just bad. but is diet coke just as bad? I am not really sure. Diet Coke tastes pretty grotty - and the stuff in it is making it taste grotty.

Maybe I shouldn't be drinking any kinda of coke I hear you say - good point, but completely impractical so we'll move on.

According to Joi Ito, see article , Aspartame/Nutrasweet also breaks down to diketopiperazine [DKP] which is proven to cause Brain Tumors! Brain Tumors used to be rare. Several of the rats in the original study formed brain tumors during their Aspartame/Nutrasweet exposure. The researchers surgically removed the tumors and returned the rats to the study and discounted the tumors.

I'm not sure how true it is but it sounds pretty bad! Interestingly my google serach brought up heaps more articles about Diet Coke than Coke. Hmmm interesting.

Well i haven't reached a decision yet - I think I will continue on my Diet Coke drinking, with the exception of Fridays when we have burgers, until I come up with the answer