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Artificial Sweetened Beverages and Pediatric Obesity: The Controversy Continues
The pediatric obesity epidemic has gathered public and political interest recently. People often choose “diet” or artificial sweetened beverages (ASB) to combat this epidemic, but the obesity incidence continues to rise. First, I review the pediatric studies on the effect of ASB consumption with sub...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4939516/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27417465 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children1010031 |
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description | The pediatric obesity epidemic has gathered public and political interest recently. People often choose “diet” or artificial sweetened beverages (ASB) to combat this epidemic, but the obesity incidence continues to rise. First, I review the pediatric studies on the effect of ASB consumption with subsequent food intake. Next, I present pediatric studies of chronic ASB consumption and weight change. Some epidemiologic pediatric studies have supported an association between artificial sweetener use and increased BMI but cannot prove causation. Randomized control trials have provided some evidence of weight loss with ASB ingestion among children, but study limitations may minimize these conclusions. Finally, I summarize the possible mechanisms that may drive potential effects of artificial sweeteners. |
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spelling | pubmed-49395162016-07-12 Artificial Sweetened Beverages and Pediatric Obesity: The Controversy Continues Freswick, Peter N Children (Basel) Review The pediatric obesity epidemic has gathered public and political interest recently. People often choose “diet” or artificial sweetened beverages (ASB) to combat this epidemic, but the obesity incidence continues to rise. First, I review the pediatric studies on the effect of ASB consumption with subsequent food intake. Next, I present pediatric studies of chronic ASB consumption and weight change. Some epidemiologic pediatric studies have supported an association between artificial sweetener use and increased BMI but cannot prove causation. Randomized control trials have provided some evidence of weight loss with ASB ingestion among children, but study limitations may minimize these conclusions. Finally, I summarize the possible mechanisms that may drive potential effects of artificial sweeteners. MDPI 2014-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4939516/ /pubmed/27417465 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children1010031 Text en © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Freswick, Peter N Artificial Sweetened Beverages and Pediatric Obesity: The Controversy Continues |
title | Artificial Sweetened Beverages and Pediatric Obesity: The Controversy Continues |
title_full | Artificial Sweetened Beverages and Pediatric Obesity: The Controversy Continues |
title_fullStr | Artificial Sweetened Beverages and Pediatric Obesity: The Controversy Continues |
title_full_unstemmed | Artificial Sweetened Beverages and Pediatric Obesity: The Controversy Continues |
title_short | Artificial Sweetened Beverages and Pediatric Obesity: The Controversy Continues |
title_sort | artificial sweetened beverages and pediatric obesity: the controversy continues |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4939516/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27417465 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children1010031 |
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