ArticleAmerican journal of preventive medicine2019
Health Warnings on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages: Simulation of Impacts on Diet and Obesity Among U.S. Adults.
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- Modelling health and economic impact of nutrition interventions: a systematic review.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2023Pooled it
- Sugary drink warnings: A meta-analysis of experimental studies.PLoS medicine · 2020Pooled it
- Online RCT of Added-Sugar Warning Labels and Spanish-English Label Education.American journal of preventive medicine · 2025Trial
- Countermarketing Versus Health Education Messages About Sugar-Sweetened Beverages: An Online Randomized Controlled Trial of US Adults.American journal of public health · 2024Trial
- Impact of front-of-pack labels on the perceived healthfulness of a sweetened fruit drink: a randomised experiment in five countries.Public health nutrition · 2022Trial
- Influence of the San Francisco, CA, Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Health Warning on Consumer Reactions: Implications for Equity from a Randomized Experiment.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2022Trial
- The impact of pictorial health warnings on purchases of sugary drinks for children: A randomized controlled trial.PLoS medicine · 2022Trial
- Designing warnings for sugary drinks: A randomized experiment with Latino parents and non-Latino parents.Preventive medicine · 2021Trial
- Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Warning Labels and Taxes: Simulated Impacts When Considering Implementation.American journal of preventive medicine · 2026Article
- Commercial Determinants of Latinx Health: A Scoping Review of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages in the USA.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Evaluating select factors and mechanisms influencing meat consumption in Baltimore City: an agent-based modeling study.BMC public health · 2026Article
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- Simulated retail food environments: A literature review of systems science approaches to advance equity in access to healthy diets.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Review
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- Health harms that discourage alcohol consumption: A randomized experiment of warning messages.Addictive behaviors · 2024Article
- Developing messages to encourage healthy, sustainable dietary substitutions: A qualitative study with US emerging adults.Appetite · 2024Article
- Cost Effectiveness of Calorie Labeling at Large Fast-Food Chains Across the U.S.American journal of preventive medicine · 2024Article
- Primordial prevention: Reducing consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages in racial/ethnic populations.American heart journal plus : cardiology research and practice · 2023Article
- A five-country study of front- and back-of-package nutrition label awareness and use: patterns and correlates from the 2018 International Food Policy Study.Public health nutrition · 2023Article
- Consumers Respond Positively to the Sensory, Health, and Sustainability Benefits of the Rare Sugar Allulose in Yogurt Formulations.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
introductionOverconsumption of sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) is a significant contributor to obesity. Policymakers have proposed requiring health warnings on SSBs to reduce SSB consumption. Randomized trials indicate that SSB warnings reduce SSB purchases, but uncertainty remains about how warnings affect population-level dietary and health outcomes.
methodsThis study developed a stochastic microsimulation model of dietary behaviors and body weight using the 2005-2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, research on SSB health warnings, and a validated model of weight change. In 2019, the model simulated a national SSB health warning policy's impact on SSB intake, total energy intake, BMI, and obesity among U.S. adults over 5 years. Sensitivity analyses varied assumptions about: (1) how warning efficacy changes over time, (2) the magnitude of warnings' impact on SSB intake, and (3) caloric compensation.
resultsA national SSB health warning policy would reduce average SSB intake by 25.3 calories/day (95% uncertainty interval [UI]= -27.0, -23.6) and total energy intake by 31.2 calories/day (95% UI= -32.2, -30.1). These dietary changes would reduce average BMI by 0.64 kg/m
conclusionsA national SSB health warning policy could reduce adults' SSB consumption and obesity prevalence. Warnings could also narrow sociodemographic disparities in these outcomes.
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