The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
I do think that most, if not all of the controlled intervention trials show positive effects of artificially sweetened or low-calorie sweetened beverages on weight loss and all of the metabolic consequences of what happens with weight loss, and they're all positive.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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most if not all of the controlled intervention trials show positive effects of artificially sweetened or low calorie sweetened beverages.