A Trial of Sugar-free or Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Body Weight in Children

A trial of sugar-free or sugar-sweetened beverages and body weight in children.

BACKGROUND The consumption of beverages that contain sugar is associated with overweight, possibly because liquid sugars do not lead to a sense of satiety, so the consumption of other foods is not reduced. However, data are lacking to show that the replacement of sugar-containing beverages with noncaloric beverages diminishes weight gain. METHODS We conducted an 18-month trial involving 641 p...

A randomized trial of sugar-sweetened beverages and adolescent body weight.

BACKGROUND Consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages may cause excessive weight gain. We aimed to assess the effect on weight gain of an intervention that included the provision of noncaloric beverages at home for overweight and obese adolescents. METHODS We randomly assigned 224 overweight and obese adolescents who regularly consumed sugar-sweetened beverages to experimental and control group...

Intake of sugar - sweetened beverages and weight gain : a systematic

Sugar-sweetened beverages, weight gain and nutritional epidemiological study design.

In this issue of the British Journal of Nutrition, Libuda et al. (1) describe their findings from the Dortmund Nutritional and Anthropometric Longitudinally Designed (DONALD) study on the relationship between sugar-sweetened beverages as well as fruit juice intake and changes in relative body weight over a 5-year period in 119 boys and 116 girls of average age 12 years at study commencement. Th...

Sugar-sweetened beverages and weight gain in children and adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND The relation between sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and body weight remains controversial. OBJECTIVE We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to summarize the evidence in children and adults. DESIGN We searched PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane databases through March 2013 for prospective cohort studies and randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that evaluated the SSB-weight ...