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Zero-sugar soft drinks are worse for health than regular sugar-sweetened soft drinks.

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INSUFFICIENT LEANING
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0 sources for · 3 against

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Is it true that Zero-sugar soft drinks are worse for health than regular sugar-sweetened soft drinks?

Unclear. The retrieved items do not directly compare zero-sugar soft drinks with regular sugar-sweetened soft drinks on overall health. Two items offer partial, outcome-specific evidence against the claim: one finds sugar-sweetened drinks raise uric acid while diet drinks do not, and one reports worse short-term outcomes for sugar-sweetened than artificially-sweetened beverages; a third only flags a possible benzoic acid exposure concern with intense sweeteners.

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Evidence against · 3
Impact on health when sugar is replaced with intense sweeteners in soft drinks, 'saft' and nectar
2007
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Safety, N. S. C. f. F. (2007). Impact on health when sugar is replaced with intense sweeteners in soft drinks, 'saft' and nectar. zenodo.org. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.827319

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Sugar‐sweetened soft drinks, diet soft drinks, and serum uric acid level: The third national health and nutrition examination survey
2007
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Choi, J. W. J., Ford, E. S., Gao, X., & Choi, H. K. (2007). Sugar‐sweetened soft drinks, diet soft drinks, and serum uric acid level: The third national health and nutrition examination survey. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1002/art.23245

Not-so-healthy sugar substitutes? -
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Not-so-healthy sugar substitutes? - PMC Lock. (n.d.). pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2016.03.003

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