Ugh, I hate it when stories talk about studies and then don't link to them. Link to study: http://consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/oby20737.pdf htt

Ugh, I hate it when stories talk about studies and then don't link to them. Link to study: http://consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/oby20737.pdf http://consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/oby20737... Eh. The difference in weight loss was 1-2 kg over 12 weeks. That's incredibly negligible. Moreover, while they monitored for exercise adherence, they didn't measure dietary adherence at all; they didn't measure adherence to "study drug" (were the people even drinking the recommended quantity of diet sodas / water?); while they did take the diuretic effects of soda into account, they didn't have a caffeine control which is an obvious potential contributor; and it sounds like people may have been allowed to drink diet tea which could introduce other confounding variables. Most importantly, this is a link bait title for an observational study. At best all you can say here is that drinking 24 ounces of diet soda per day during a weight loss routine is correlated with slightly more weight loss, not that nutrasweet / diet soda induces weight loss as the title implies.