Water Instead of Diet Drinks For Weight Loss

I’ve always recommended that good, old-fashioned water should be your number one beverage of choice. And now research continues to support this concept. Replacing diet beverages with water may lead to greater weight loss in obese women with type 2 diabetes who are following a weight-loss diet, a recent study shows. Among 81 overweight or obese women with type 2 diabetes who usually consumed diet drinks, those who substituted water for the diet beverage after lunch five times a week for 24 weeks experienced a greater decrease in weight and BMI (Body Mass Index) than compared to those who drank a diet beverage after lunch, as well as greater improvements in fasting plasma glucose and insulin sensitivity.

(Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, October 2016) Read the full study here.

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