Tag: Diet soda fasting

While diet sodas contain zero calories, many health and nutrition experts advise against them during a fast due to potential metabolic interference. Understanding how artificial sweeteners affect your body is crucial to decide if you can drink diet soda on a 3 day fast without undermining your goals.

According to Johns Hopkins neuroscientist Mark Mattson, our bodies evolved to survive and thrive for long periods without food. The good news for intermittent fasters is that this does not mean you have to endure your fasting window completely without fluids; you can have liquids while intermittent fasting, as long as they are carefully selected to avoid breaking your fast.