Healthier from a physical or mental point of view? I believe soda to be poison, I don’t care how healthy you may think you are, soda is a chemical stew of ingredients that, in the long run are definitely bad for you.
Now, beer........from a chemical and health standpoint I’d say nothing wrong with it BUT, if you are like some for whom one is just never enough.......put it this way, no one buys a case of Diet Coke and drinks them all while watching the game!
“The beer that made Milwaukee famous made a jackass out of me!”