This is very true, and diet based drinks focused on providing caffeine too cause various cardiac and circulatory system issues. It is better to avoid consumption all together than to simply reduce your intake.
Yes it affects our health more consuming it leads to poor gut health, artificial sweeteners in the diet drink increase the sweet receptors and leads to consume more sweets .
In my opinion, this shows that relying too much on diet drinks isn’t risk-free — even artificial sweeteners like saccharin can raise diabetes risk over time. It’s better to limit them and choose natural options when possible to protect our health.
In my opinion there is no carbonated or any other cold drinks sold in market that doesn’t contain sugar ,preservatives and additives to it.
Some diet drinks also contain such additive and contains other sugars than sucrose and are addictive too though and harmful to the health