ABSTRACT
A description of the purported mechanisms and the scientific evidence on the link between sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) and risk of type 2 diabetes was covered in Chapter 2, as SSB are one of the leading contributors to intake of simple sugars in the United States and many other developed countries. This chapter focuses on two other types of popular beverages for which relevant and recent scientific evidence has accumulated in the
Artificially sweetened beverages ................................................................. 194 Potential mechanisms ............................................................................... 194 Prospective cohort studies of ASB and body weight ........................... 196 Randomized controlled trials of ASB and body weight ...................... 197 ASB consumption and risk for T2D in epidemiologic cohort studies......................................................................................................198
