Norton Reports Cases of 100 Pound Weight Loss From Switching to Diet Soda Alone

What was said

"Whenever I post about non-nutritive sweeteners, in the comments there's always 1 or 2 or 3 people who say, all I did was cut out soda and I drank diet soda instead and I lost 50 pounds, or I lost 75 pounds. I even have one person say I lost 100 pounds, that's the only thing I did."

Norton shared anecdotal reports from multiple individuals who lost significant weight—ranging from 50 to 100 pounds—by making only one dietary change: replacing sugar-sweetened beverages with artificially sweetened alternatives. He used these cases to argue that concerns about artificial sweeteners affecting gut microbiome are trivial compared to the massive health benefits of eliminating hundreds of daily calories from sugar.