Prompted by Shara's comment, I'd like to catalog my thoughts on diet foods. 

Diet soda is the work of the devil.  I hate it.  I can't understand how anyone can possibly like it.  It's disgusting, degrading, has a terrible aftertaste, and is healthy in no way, shape, or form.  Everyone laughs at the jokes about fat people ordering a Supersized Big Mac combo meal and a Diet Coke.  But it's not just fat people who are mislead by this vile substance.  It's skinny people too.  Smart people.  Health-conscious people.  People treat it like a sports drink; like they're doing themselves a favor by not drinking regular soda.  I don't know too much about artificial sweeteners, but I can't imagine they're any healthier than regular sugar.  And for that matter, I would imagine that regular soda isn't exactly healthy to begin with.  So if you're gonna put some artificially-flavored, black-colored, cocaine-derived solvent into your body, you might as well go with the Real Thing™. 

As for other diet foods, I usually stay away from things that try to be healthy.  There's no such thing as a good-tasting fat-free snack food.  Fat is what makes food taste good in the first place.  And most times when something is fat-free, it means the fat was replaced by something else, and it's usually sugar.  So which would I rather put in my body:  Fat or sugar?  It depends on how much of each.  And it depends if the fat is good fat (unsaturated) or bad fat (saturated).  What real health problem am I saving myself from when I eat Lite Cool Whip instead of regular?  A half a gram of fat?  That's not worth it.  But when it comes to something like potato chips, I'll go with Baked Lay's instead of regular Lay's any day.  But that's because they're baked instead of fried, not made with less fat. #food