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excess sugar intake
Complications:
- overweight
- obesity
- sugar-sweetened beverages are associated with excess risk of diabetes mellitus type 2
Management:
- limit added sugar intake to < 10% of daily calories
Notes:
- 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]
Related
dietary sugar
sugar-sweetened beverage
General
eating disorder
References
- O'Connor L et al
Prospective associations and population impact of sweet
beverage intake and type 2 diabetes, and effects of
substitutions with alternative beverages.
Diabetologia. Spring 2015
http://www.diabetologia-journal.org/files/OConnor.pdf
- Imamura F et al.
Consumption of sugar sweetened beverages, artificially
sweetened beverages, and fruit juice and incidence of type 2
diabetes: Systematic review, meta-analysis, and estimation of
population attributable fraction.
BMJ 2015; 351:h3576
PMID: 26199070
- 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 et al.
The scientific basis of guideline recommendations on sugar
intake: A systematic review.
Ann Intern Med 2016 Dec 20;
PMID: 27992898