Foods and Beverages Associated with Higher Intake of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages

Foods and beverages associated with higher intake of sugar-sweetened beverages.

BACKGROUND Although consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) is associated with higher caloric intakes, the amount SSBs contribute to higher intakes has not been addressed. PURPOSE To estimate the amount SSBs contribute to higher caloric intakes and determine how the diets of SSB consumers and nonconsumers differ. METHODS The What We Eat In America, NHANES 2003-2010 surveys were comb...

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

Sugar-sweetened beverages and genetic risk of obesity.

BACKGROUND Temporal increases in the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages have paralleled the rise in obesity prevalence, but whether the intake of such beverages interacts with the genetic predisposition to adiposity is unknown. METHODS We analyzed the interaction between genetic predisposition and the intake of sugar-sweetened beverages in relation to body-mass index (BMI; the weight in...

Sugar-sweetened beverages and vascular function: food for thought.

OBESITY IS A well-recognized major global health problem, and the World Health Organization estimates that there are more than 600 million obese adults worldwide as of 2014. Because obesity is often the result of excess caloric intake, there has been a significant effort invested into understanding how various nutrients (e.g., carbohydrates and fatty acids) consumed in surplus adversely affect ...

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...