In this issue:
- New meta-analysis finds no health benefits from nonnutritive sweeteners and possible negative effects for weight and cardiometabolic disease risk
- Intervention focused on reducing sugary drink intake reduces sugar and calorie consumption, and may be gateway to other dietary improvements
- Mass media campaign leads to drop in sugary drink sales and increased awareness of health harms of sugar
- National-level nutrition policies such as sugary drink taxes and fruit and vegetable subsidies could reduce cardiovascular disease burden
- Two new modeling studies look at potential benefits from a sugary drink tax in Australia: productivity will increase with a healthier work force, and low-income households may benefit most from health improvements