The effects of water and non‐nutritive sweetened beverages on weight loss and weight maintenance: A randomized clinical trial

To evaluate the effects of water versus beverages sweetened with non‐nutritive sweeteners (NNS) on body weight in subjects enrolled in a year‐long behavioral weight loss treatment program.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Obesity

• Publication date

  2015-12-26

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1002/oby.21327PMID 26708700PMCID 4744961
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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