OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between sweetened beverage consumption and components of the metabolic syndrome in a Mexican population. DESIGN We performed a cross-sectional analysis of data from selected adults participating in the baseline assessment of the Health Workers Cohort Study. Information on participants' sociodemographic characteristics, dietary patterns and physical activi...

Monthly data derived from the Nielsen HomeScan Panel for calendar years 1998 through 2003 are used to estimate quantity-wise and calorie-wise effects of a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages and bottled water. Quantity diversion ratios and caloric diversion ratios are provided identifying where the volumes and calories respectively, of the sugar-sweetened beverages and bottled water are directed a...

•SNAP households are influenced by proximity to stores in predicting store choice.•Store choice among SNAP households predicted beverage purchases.•SNAP households are more likely to purchase sugar-sweetened beverages at supercenters and convenience stores.

Today, increased intake of sugar and sugar-sweetened beverages is seen today as an important factor in the growing prevalence chronic diseases, such obesity, obesity-related diabetes, coronary heart diseases. This study involved 214 university students from Department Nutrition Dietetics Ankara University, Faculty Health Science, which was intended to evaluate consumption beverages. The frequen...

Intake of added sugars, mainly fructose and sucrose, has been associated with risk factors for cognitive impairment, such as obesity, the metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. The objective of this analysis was to examine whether habitual intakes of total sugars, added sugars, sugar-sweetened beverages or sweetened solid foods are associated with cognitive function. The present study included...

Carbon isotopic signatures (‘‘dC’’) might reflect consumption of cornand cane-based sweeteners. The authors hypothesized that the dC value of human serum is higher for individuals with high versus low intakes of cornand cane-based sweeteners (measured as sweetened beverage intake). They conducted a cross-sectional study within the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Magnetic Resonance Imaging s...

OBJECTIVE The aims of the present work were to study beverage consumption among obese women from rural communities in Mexico and to estimate daily polyphenol intake and dietary antioxidant capacity from beverages. DESIGN A cross-sectional study was used to analyse the beverage intake of 139 premenopausal obese women estimated through repeated 24 h food recalls. Total polyphenol content and an...

BACKGROUND Chile is the second world's largest per capita consumer of caloric beverages. Caloric beverages are associated with overweight, obesity and other chronic diseases. The objective of this study is to estimate the price elasticity of demand for soft drinks, other sugar-sweetened beverages and high-energy dense foods in urban areas in Chile in order to evaluate the potential response of ...

CONTEXT Sugar-sweetened beverages like soft drinks and fruit punches contain large amounts of readily absorbable sugars and may contribute to weight gain and an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, but these relationships have been minimally addressed in adults. OBJECTIVE To examine the association between consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and weight change and risk of type 2 diabetes in...