Artificially Sweetened Beverages and the Response to the Global Obesity Crisis

PLoS Med. 2017 Jan 3;14(1):e1002195. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002195. eCollection 2017 Jan.

Maria Carolina Borges^{1

2}, Maria Laura Louzada^{3

4}, Thiago Hérick de Sá^{3

4}, Anthony A Laverty⁵, Diana C Parra⁶, Josefa Maria Fellegger Garzillo^{3

4

7}, Carlos Augusto Monteiro^{3

4}, Christopher Millett^{4

5

8}

¹ Post-Graduate Program in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil.
² MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁴ Center for Epidemiological Studies in Health and Nutrition, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁵ Public Health Policy Evaluation Unit, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
⁶ Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, Program in Physical Therapy, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America.
⁷ PhD Program on Global Health and Sustainability, School of Public Health, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁸ Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Social Medicine, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Abstract

Christopher Millett and colleagues argue that artificially sweetened beverages should not be promoted as part of a healthy diet.