India, Oct. 15 -- A two-year study published in the British Journal of Nutrition has found that drinking water does not offer a clear weight-loss advantage over diet drinks.
Researchers from the University of Liverpool randomly assigned 493 adults who were overweight or had obesity to drink either water or commercially available diet beverages every day. Both groups also took part in a structured weight-management program. After 104 weeks, participants who drank diet beverages had maintained weight loss similar to those who drank water.
The diet drinks contained low- or zero-calorie sweeteners, including aspartame, acesulfame potassium (acesulfame-K) and sucralose. Participants consumed these sweeteners at levels well within the safety li...