Removing sugar sweetened beverages from a university campus

Can Children Discriminate Sugar-Sweetened from Non-Nutritively Sweetened Beverages and How Do They Like Them?

BACKGROUND Replacement of sugar-sweetened by non-nutritively sweetened beverages or water may reduce excess weight gain in children. However, it is unclear whether children like non-nutritively sweetened beverages as much as sugar-sweetened beverages. We examined whether children could taste a difference between non-nutritively sweetened beverages and matching sugar-sweetened beverages, and whi...

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

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 ...

The Negative Impact of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages on Children’s Health

Over nearly the past 30 years, U.S. children and adolescents have dramatically increased their consumption of sugarsweetened beverages (SSBs), including soda, fruit drinks and punches, and sports drinks (see sidebar for a more complete definition).6,7 Such consumption has been linked to less healthy diets and a number of other negative health consequences, including decreased bone density, dent...

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...