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  "id": 11928902,
  "title": "Diet drinks work as well as water for weight loss, major trial finds",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/04/diet-drinks-work-as-well-as-water-for-weight-loss-major-trial-finds",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-04T02:10:59.000Z",
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  "summary": "A two-year randomized clinical trial involving 493 adults with overweight or obesity found that diet soft drinks were essentially as effective as water for long-term weight loss and weight maintenance. Participants drinking beverages sweetened with aspartame, acesulfame-K, or sucralose lost a similar amount of weight to those drinking water, while both groups also saw improvements in waist size,…",
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