If you're overweight and swap sugary drinks for diet drinks with sucralose for 12 weeks, your waist size and blood sugar levels may go down, and your good cholesterol may go up.

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614-P: Effect of Non-nutritive Sweetener Sucralose on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors among Overweight and Obese Adults in India—A Randomized Clinical Trial

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This study gave overweight adults sugary drinks with sucralose instead of sugar for 12 weeks, and their waist size, blood sugar, and cholesterol got better — just like the claim said they would.

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614-P: Effect of Non-nutritive Sweetener Sucralose on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors among Overweight and Obese Adults in India—A Randomized Clinical Trial

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DOI: 10.2337/db23-614-p

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