Nutritively sweetened beverage consumption and body weight

The study examined whether nutritively sweetened beverages (NSBs) can be linked to the obesity epidemic, and found that current evidence does not demonstrate conclusiely that NSB consumption has uniquely contributed to obesity or that reducing NSB consumption will decrease Body Mass Index (BMI) levels in general. Some key insights from the study:

• “The current evidence does not demonstrate conclusively that NSB consumption has uniquely contributed to obesity or that reducing NSB consumption will reduce BMI levels in general”.

You can find the whole paper here.