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Trial reportThe British journal of nutrition2014

Effects on obese women of the sugar sucrose added to the diet over 28 d: a quasi-randomised, single-blind, controlled trial.

Marie Reid, Richard Hammersley, Maresa Duffy, Carrie Ballantyne

Open access · bronzeAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in The British journal of nutrition, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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18citing papers in PubMed, 7 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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18 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Marie ReidDepartment of Psychology, University of Hull, Hull, UK.
Richard HammersleyDepartment of Psychology, University of Hull, Hull, UK.
Maresa DuffyDepartment of Nutrition, University of Ulster, Coleraine, UK.
Carrie BallantyneDepartment of Psychology, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.
University of Hull · GBHeriot-Watt University · GBUniversity of Ulster · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council D12497
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To investigate whether obese women can compensate for sucrose added to the diet when it is given blind, rather than gaining weight or exhibiting dysfunctional regulation of intake, in the present study, forty-one healthy obese (BMI 30-35 kg/m²) women (age 20-50 years), not currently dieting, were randomly assigned to consume sucrose (n 20) or aspartame (n 21) drinks over 4 weeks in a parallel single-blind design. Over the 4 weeks, one group consumed 4 × 250 ml sucrose drinks (total 1800 kJ/d) and the other group consumed 4 × 250 ml aspartame drinks. During the baseline week and experimental weeks, body weight and other biometric data were measured and steps per day, food intake using 7 d unweighed food diaries, and mood using ten- or seven-point Likert scales four times a day were recorded. At the end of the experiment, the participants weighed 1·72 (SE 0·47) kg less than the value predicted by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) model; the predicted body weight accounted for 94·3% of the variance in the observed body weight and experimental group accounted for a further 1·1% of the variance in the observed body weight, showing that women consuming sucrose drinks gained significantly less weight than predicted. The reported daily energy intake did not increase significantly, and sucrose supplements significantly reduced the reported voluntary sugar, starch and fat intake compared with aspartame. There were no effects on appetite or mood. Over 4 weeks, as part of everyday eating, sucrose given blind in soft drinks was partially compensated for by obese women, as in previous experiments with healthy and overweight participants.

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Appetite RegulationCarbonated BeveragesEnergy IntakeModels, BiologicalActivities of Daily LivingAdultAffectAspartameBody Mass IndexBody WeightDietary SucroseDiet RecordsFemaleHumansMiddle AgedMotor ActivityAspartameDietary Sucrose

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PMID24164779
PMCPMC3919641
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