Resolved: there is sufficient scientific evidence that decreasing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption will reduce the prevalence of obesity and obesity-related diseases
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...Indeed, the weight of the evidence about the role of sugar-sweetened beverages in obesity [46, 47] is a strong impetus for public health interventions and policies, such as limiting advertising on these beverages as...
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...Both long-term prospective cohorts and clinical trials demonstrate that SSBs increase adiposity.(256) Per serving, SSBs associate with greater long-term weight gain than nearly any other dietary factor....
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...SSBs are the single largest source of added sugar intake and the top source of energy intake in the US diet.(62) A quantitative synthesis of...
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...However, the question of whether consumption of added sugar promotes body weight and fat gain is also controversial as indicated by the titles of recent reviews: “Resolved: there is sufficient scientific evidence that decreasing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption will reduce the prevalence of obesity and obesity-related diseases” (113), and “Will reducing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption reduce obesity? Evidence supporting conjecture is strong, but evidence when testing effect is...
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...Several lines of evidence, taken together, meet the key Bradford Hill criteria to establish a causal relationship between SSB consumption and risk of T2D (38) (Table 2)....
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...Sir Austin Bradford Hill’s thoughts on causality several decades ago are still relevant to today’s obesity epidemic (38):...
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...The percentage of overweight and obese adults in the United States increased from 47 and 15%, respectively, in the late 1970s to nearly 69 and 36% in 2009–2010 (2)....
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...Moreover, a number of authoritative scientific associations and committees including the United States Department of Agriculture (77), the American Heart Association (78,79), the American Academy of Pediatrics (80), the American Medical Association (81), the American Diabetes Association (82), the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (63), the WHO and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (83–86) are convinced of the evidence and are calling for reductions in consumption of SSBs for prevention of obesity and chronic diseases (Table 3)....
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