Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Children's Health

Sugar-sweetened beverages and health: where does the evidence stand?

The relation between sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), obesity, and related health outcomes has increasingly attracted public and scientific interest. Since the late 1970s, intake of SSBs has increased more than 2-fold (1), and currently they are now the primary source of added sugar in the US diet (2). On average, SSBs contain 140–150 kcal and 35–37.5 g sugar per 12-oz serving. The prevailing ...

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 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...

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