Can low and no-calorie sweetened drinks be useful as a sugary drink substitute?

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Swapping out sugary drinks with low and no-calorie substitutes may help you lose a bit of weight and reduce the risk of diabetes, according to a meta-analysis by Aussie and international researchers. The team drew on randomised controlled trials that tracked weight loss and health risk changes when swapping sugary drinks for low calorie substitutes, sugary drinks for water and low calorie drinks for water. The researchers say using low-calorie drinks as a substitute for sugary drinks was associated with small reductions in weight and body fat percentage and the positive impacts appeared to be similar in direction to substituting with water.

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Organisation/s: The University of Queensland, University of Toronto, Canada

Funder: This study was commissioned by the DNSG of the EASD, which provided funding and logistical support for meetings as part of the development of the EASD Clinical Practice Guidelines for Nutrition Therapy. This study was also supported by grant 129920 from CIHR through the Canada-wide NTN. The Toronto Diet, Digestive tract, and Disease Centre (3D), funded through the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Ministry of Research and Innovation’s Ontario Research Fund, provided the infrastructure for the conduct of this project. Ms McGlynn was supported by a CIHR-Masters Award and a Research Training Centre scholarship from St Michel’s Hospital. Dr Comelli was funded from holding the Lawson Family Chair in Microbiome Nutrition Research at the University of Toronto. Dr Salas-Salvadó was funded by the ICREA (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies) Academia program. Dr Sievenpiper was funded by a PSI Graham Farquharson Knowledge Translation Fellowship, Diabetes Canada Clinician Scientist Award, CIHR INMD/CNS New Investigator Partnership Prize, and a Banting & Best Diabetes Centre Sun Life Financial New Investigator Award.

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