Drinking artificially sweetened drinks in pregnancy shows link to overweight infants

Pregnant women who drink artificially sweetened drinks every day during pregnancy are 100% more likely to have an infant who is overweight at age 1 than women who drink none,1 a study published in JAMA Pediatrics shows, although the researchers acknowledge that their study relies on self reported consumption of artificially sweetened drinks and cannot prove a causal association.

Meghan Azad and colleagues, from the University of Manitoba in Canada, studied 3030 women enrolled in the Canadian Infant Longitudinal …