ArticleObesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity2013
Will reducing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption reduce obesity? Evidence supporting conjecture is strong, but evidence when testing effect is weak.
Article in Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02702440 (Effect of Liquid Versus Solid Calories on Body Weight), which is not on this map. Cited by 63 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Effect of Liquid Versus Solid Calories on Body Weight: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Controlled Feeding Trials
Who cites it
63 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Food sources of fructose-containing sugars and glycaemic control: systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled intervention studies.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2018Pooled it
- Relation of total sugars, fructose and sucrose with incident type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2017Pooled it
- Nutritional interventions or exposures in infants and children aged up to 3 years and their effects on subsequent risk of overweight, obesity and body fat: a systematic review of systematic reviews.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2016Pooled it
- Determinants of sugar-sweetened beverage consumption in young children: a systematic review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2015Pooled it
- A systematic review investigating interventions that can help reduce consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages in children leading to changes in body fatness.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2015Pooled it
- Intake of fruit juice and incidence of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2014Pooled it
- The effects of the form of sugar (solid vs. beverage) on body weight and fMRI activation: A randomized controlled pilot study.PloS one · 2021Trial
- Effects of a behavioral and health literacy intervention to reduce sugar-sweetened beverages: a randomized-controlled trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2016Trial
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- 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
- Talking health, a pragmatic randomized-controlled health literacy trial targeting sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among adults: rationale, design & methods.Contemporary clinical trials · 2014Trial
- Socioeconomic disadvantage and polygenic risk of overweight in early and mid-life: a longitudinal population cohort study spanning 12 years.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2024Article
- Exposure to sugar rationing in the first 1000 days of life protected against chronic disease.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2024Article
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- The role of sugar-sweetened beverages in the global epidemics of obesity and chronic diseases.Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2022Review
- Associations between Diet Quality and Body Composition in Young Children Born with Very Low Body Weight.The Journal of nutrition · 2020Article
- Association of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Frequency with Adiposity: Evidence from the "Children of 1997" Birth Cohort.Nutrients · 2020Article
- High-sugar diet leads to obesity and metabolic diseases in ad libitum -fed rats irrespective of caloric intake.Archives of endocrinology and metabolism · 2020Article
- Opposing Consumption Trends for Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Plain Drinking Water: Analyses of NHANES 2011-16 Data.Frontiers in nutrition · 2020Article
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Abstract
We provide arguments to the debate question and update a previous meta-analysis with recently published studies on effects of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) on body weight/composition indices (BWIs). We abstracted data from randomized controlled trials examining effects of consumption of SSBs on BWIs. Six new studies met these criteria: (i) human trials, (ii) ≥ 3 weeks duration, (iii) random assignment to conditions differing only in consumption of SSBs and (iv) including a BWI outcome. Updated meta-analysis of a total of seven studies that added SSBs to persons' diets showed dose-dependent increases in weight. Updated meta-analysis of eight studies attempting to reduce SSB consumption showed an equivocal effect on BWIs in all randomized subjects. When limited to subjects overweight at baseline, meta-analysis showed a significant effect of roughly 0.25 standard deviations (more weight loss/less weight gain) relative to controls. Evidence to date is equivocal in showing that decreasing SSB consumption will reduce the prevalence of obesity. Although new evidence suggests that an effect may yet be demonstrable in some populations, the integrated effect size estimate remains very small and of equivocal statistical significance. Problems in this research area and suggestions for future research are highlighted.
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