Are we discussing the effects of sweeteners in beverages, or the behavior of corporations? If it's sweeteners, the two links you provided offered zero evidence to back up your opinion. I even quoted relevant portions, which I will gladly post again:
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"... scant quantitative data exist to determine whether such changes in dietary composition are related to the current epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes in the United States."
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"Experts still have a long way to go to connect the dots between fructose and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Higher intakes of fructose are associated with these conditions, but clinical trials have yet to show that it causes them."
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No data, no connections, no conclusions. Truth too inconvenient?
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