4 Topic Commentaries

NNS beverages may match water in weight control

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  James O. Hill, PhD

  Nutrition and Obesity Research

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  University of Colorado Anschutz Health and Wellness Center

  This study clearly demonstrates diet beverages can in fact help people lose weight, directly countering myths in recent years that suggest the opposite effect—weight gain.

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  Sharon J. Herring, MD, MPH

  Internal Medicine; Obesity Medicine

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  Temple University

  Though both the diet-beverage and water groups lost weight at the end of the 12-week period, we found that the diet beverage group lost more weight than the water group. Average weight loss among participants in the diet-beverage group was 13 pounds, whereas participants in the water group lost 9 pounds.

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  John C. Peters, PhD

  Nutrition, Obesity, and Diabetes

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  University of Colorado Anschutz Health and Wellness Center

  There’s so much misinformation about diet beverages that isn’t based on studies designed to test cause and effect, especially on the internet. This research allows dieters to feel confident that low- and no-calorie sweetened beverages can play an important and helpful role as a part of an effective and comprehensive weight-loss strategy.

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  Frank B. Hu, MD, MPH, PhD

  Nutrition and Epidemiology

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  Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

  for habitual consumers of sugar-sweetened beverages, artificially sweetened beverages can be used as a temporary replacement, although the best choices would be water and unsweetened coffee or tea.

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