date:Sep 25, 2012
MI and obesity risk, conclude the authors.
Empty calories?
Separately, researchers behind A Trial of Sugar-free or Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Body Weight in Children examined the effect of masked replacement of sugary beverages with diet versions in an 18-month, double blinded intervention study on healthy Dutch children.
They concluded that masked replacement of a sugary beverage with a sugar-free counterpart significantly reduced weight and body fat gain and postulated that this was bec