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dietary sugar

Epidemiology: - average child's daily dietary sugar intake is 80 g/day [2] Complications: - excess weight gain, obesity - dental caries Management: - limit added dietary sugar to < 25 g/day (< 6 tsp/day) for children & adolescents [2] - recommended upper limit for dietary sugars - < 5% of total energy intake to reduce the risk for excess weight gain & dental cavities [1] (< 1 soda) - limit intake of sugar-sweetened beverages (soda) to one 8-oz serving/week [2] - avoid added dietary sugar in children < 2 years of age [2] - quality of data supporting guidelines to reduce dietary sugar is very low* [3] * industry-sponsored review questions guidelines on limiting sugar intake - review funded by a trade group representing several large food & beverage companies, including Coca-Cola, Snapple, Hershey, & Pepsi - editorialists reject the reviewers' conclusions [3]

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References

  1. World Health Organization (WHO) WHO opens public consultation on draft sugars guideline. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2014/consultation-sugar-guideline/en/
  2. Vos MB, Kaar JL, Welsh JA et al AHA Scientific Statement Added Sugars and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Children. A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. Circulation. August 22, 2016 http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/early/2016/08/22/CIR.0000000000000439
  3. Moloo J Industry-Funded Review Challenges Guideline Recommendations to Limit Sugar Intake. NEJM Journal Watch. Jan 5, 2017 Massachusetts Medical Society (subscription needed) http://www.jwatch.org - Erickson J, Sadeghirad B, Lytvyn L et al The Scientific Basis of Guideline Recommendations on Sugar Intake: A Systematic Review. Ann Intern Med. 2016. Dec 20. PMID: 27992898 http://annals.org/aim/article/2593601/scientific-basis-guideline-recommendations-sugar-intake-systematic-review - Schillinger D, Kearns C Guidelines to Limit Added Sugar Intake: Junk Science or Junk Food? Ann Intern Med. 2016. PMID: 27992900 http://annals.org/aim/article/2593852/guidelines-limit-added-sugar-intake-junk-science-junk-food