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Diet drink

Diet drinks are special drinks for people who want to be healthy but still want to enjoy some sweet taste. They are like regular drinks but they have less or no sugar which is a bad thing for your health if you take too much of it.

Imagine you have a cup of water and a cup of juice. The juice is very sweet and tasty because of the sugar in it. The sugar is not really good for your body if you take too much of it. Diet drinks are like the water but still taste sweet because they have something called artificial sweeteners that make it taste sweet without using sugar.

So when you drink a diet drink, you are not getting too much sugar which is great for your health. You can enjoy the sweet taste without worrying about the sugar harming your body. This is why diet drinks are a great choice for people who want to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
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