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Originally Posted by jadzea
The health risks of artificial sweeteners and caffeine aside I'm not sure you have an addiction. Just because you enjoy someting and partake of it regularly IN MODERATION (capitalized for emphasis) does not mean you are addicted. A true addiction controls your thoughts and actions. It interferes with your life and happiness. It is a burning desire to obtain whatever it is over all other activities.
My husband truely likes steak. He orders them when we go out to restaurants. I make one for him almost weekly. He greatly enjoys the meal but he is not addicted. There is a difference.
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You are absolutely right. No question about it.
But since steak is tasty (more or less objectively to the extent we can say it about taste) and iron-rich and protein-rich and vitamin-rich etc., and diet coke is not rich in anything particularly good, there might be some reason to try, slowly and without using unnecessary labels such as "addiction", but just little by little, try to replace diet Coke with a more healthful drink. And if that effort fails, then sure go back to moderate consumption.