Diet drinks have long been marketed as a healthier alternative to soda because they don't have loads of sugar and calories.

A new European study finds both sugary and diet sodas raise risk of metabolic liver disease—even at modest intake levels.

S. Daniel Abraham, the New Yorker who became a billionaire by tempting dieters with Slim-Fast meal-replacement shakes and selling his company in 2000 to Unilever NV, has died. He was 100. He died on ...

S. Daniel Abraham, a onetime traveling salesman who started a line of weight-loss products led by the popular Slim-Fast diet drinks and who later used his fortune as a major Democratic political donor ...