Effect Measure, one of the best public health blogs, has an entry about research done with rats on the effect of apparent effect of saccharin on weight gain and development of excess adipose tissue. I guess I'm glad to say that it wasn't until the past two years that Laos started importing diet drink, otherwise I might have bought more. But because of marketing and the consciousness of young people that they want to remain skinny, it looks like more Lao people have been buying diet drinks.