Bray also discusses the fact that sweetened beverages in general, as compared to sweeteners added to solid foods, have a greater tendency to cause weight gain, citing a randomized,
double -
blind European
study by Rabin and others, which found that drinking calorically sweetened beverages resulted in greater weight gain over the ten - week
study than did drinking diet drinks.8 Since the beverages in this
study were sweetened with sucrose, Bray called for a
second randomized controlled
study to compare sucrose - and HFCS - sweetened beverages.