SynthesisNutrition reviews2010
Impact of water intake on energy intake and weight status: a systematic review.
Synthesis in Nutrition reviews, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04737629 (Understanding the Effects of Herbs on Attention, Coordination, and Taste), which is not on this map. Cited by 105 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Understanding the Effects of Herbs on Attention, Coordination, and Taste
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105 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 210 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Interventions to increase the consumption of water among children: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2020Pooled it
- Environmental interventions to reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and their effects on health.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Association of lactase persistence genotype with milk consumption, obesity and blood pressure: a Mendelian randomization study in the 1982 Pelotas (Brazil) Birth Cohort, with a systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal of epidemiology · 2016Pooled it
- Does low-energy sweetener consumption affect energy intake and body weight? A systematic review, including meta-analyses, of the evidence from human and animal studies.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2016Pooled it
- Effect of the multicomponent healthy high school intervention on meal frequency and eating habits among high school students in Denmark: a cluster randomized controlled trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2022Trial
- Using nudging and social marketing techniques to create healthy worksite cafeterias in the Netherlands: intervention development and study design.BMC public health · 2017Trial
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- A Water and Education Provision Intervention Modifies the Diet in Overweight Mexican Women in a Randomized Controlled Trial.The Journal of nutrition · 2015Trial
- Substituting water for sugar-sweetened beverages reduces circulating triglycerides and the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in obese but not in overweight Mexican women in a randomized controlled trial.The Journal of nutrition · 2014Trial
- Effects of an intervention aimed at reducing the intake of sugar-sweetened beverages in primary school children: a controlled trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2014Trial
- Water and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and changes in BMI among Brazilian fourth graders after 1-year follow-up.Public health nutrition · 2013Trial
- Replacing caloric beverages with water or diet beverages for weight loss in adults: main results of the Choose Healthy Options Consciously Everyday (CHOICE) randomized clinical trial.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2012Trial
- Water is K'é: A multi-level intervention to promote healthy beverage choices among Navajo families: Trial rationale and study protocol.Nutrition and health · 2026Article
- Effect of intentional daily liter of plain water on total fluid and caloric intake among free-living adults.PloS one · 2026Article
- Water intake, hydration, and weight management: the glass is half-full!Physiology & behavior · 2025Review
- Gene expression and dispersion profiles associated with water consumption and general activity in grazing beef cattle.Tropical animal health and production · 2025Article
- Intermittent Water Supply and Beverage Consumption Patterns among Adolescents and Adults in Mexico: A Nationally Representative, Cross-Sectional Analysis.The Journal of nutrition · 2025Article
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- The influence of school location and their children's nutritional model on the risk of obesity in Poland- pilot study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
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Abstract
The effects of consuming water with meals rather than drinking no beverage or various other beverages remain under-studied. This systematic review of studies reported in the English-language literature was performed to compare the effects of drinking water and various beverage alternatives on energy intake and/or weight status. Relevant clinical trials, epidemiologic studies, and intervention studies were identified and findings across the literature were summarized. From the clinical trials, average differences were calculated in total energy intake at test meals (DeltaTEI) for each of several beverage categories in comparison with water. The available literature for these comparisons is sparse and somewhat inconclusive. However, one of the most consistent sets of findings was related to adults drinking sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) versus water before a single meal. In these comparisons, total energy intakes were 7.8% higher (DeltaTEI range, -7.5 to 18.9) when SSBs were consumed. Studies comparing non-nutritive sweeteners with water were also relatively consistent and found no impact on energy intake among adults (DeltaTEI, -1.3; range, -9 to 13.8). Much less conclusive evidence was found in studies replacing water with milk and juice, with estimated increases in TEI of 14.9% (range, 10.9 to 23.9%). These findings from clinical trials, along with those from epidemiologic and intervention studies, suggest water has a potentially important role to play in reducing energy intake, and consequently in obesity prevention. A need for randomized-controlled trials to confirm this role exists.
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