Well, you did good enough research to turn you off ever trying another coca-cola or any other artificially drink ;-)

I will give you my recipe I'm drinking for a while now, I squeeze one lemon and one lime into a gallon of water and put into the fridge. After a while, you get used to it and like it and you will not crave other artificial products. Add some organic cinnamon powder into it for flavor. 

Artificially drinks are basically made of chemicals to make you crave more drinks, while giving you instant thirst satisfaction. After you made first sip you feel like: "gosh, that's all I needed, now I'm not thirsty any more" and yet a little later you are getting thirsty again. It is all designed to suck you into drinking more of it. So super rick can even be richer, while your health be damned. 

Lemon water will give you few vitamins, keep you away from dangerous chemicals and give you satisfaction, you are not one of the milking sheep.