Dietary sugar and body weight: have we reached a crisis in the epidemic of obesity and diabetes? Health be damned! Pour on the sugar

GA Bray, BM Popkin - Diabetes care, 2014 - Am Diabetes Assoc
Sugar-sweetened drinks have been associated with several health problems. In the point
narrative as presented below, we provide our opinion and review of the data to date that we …

Dynamics of the C hinese diet and the role of urbanicity, 1991–2011

FY Zhai, SF Du, ZH Wang, JG Zhang, WW Du… - Obesity …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
C hina's food consumption patterns and eating and cooking behaviours changed
dramatically between 1991 and 2011. Macronutrient composition has shifted towards fats …

Trends in diet quality among youth in the United States, 1999-2016

J Liu, CD Rehm, J Onopa, D Mozaffarian - Jama, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Prior studies of dietary trends among US youth have evaluated major
macronutrients or only a few foods or have used older data. Objective To characterize trends …

The sweetness and bitterness of childhood: Insights from basic research on taste preferences

JA Mennella, NK Bobowski - Physiology & behavior, 2015 - Elsevier
In this article, we review findings from basic, experimental research on children that suggest
that the liking of sweet and the dislike of bitter tastes reflect children's basic biology. Children …

Global and regional trends in the nutritional status of young people: a critical and neglected age group

N Akseer, S Al‐Gashm, S Mehta… - Annals of the New …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Adolescence and emerging adulthood form a critical time period for the achievement of
optimal health and nutrition across all stages of the life course. We undertook a review of …

[HTML][HTML] Sources of added sugars in young children, adolescents, and adults with low and high intakes of added sugars

RL Bailey, VL Fulgoni III, AE Cowan, PC Gaine - Nutrients, 2018 - mdpi.com
High intake of added sugars is associated with excess energy intake and poorer diet quality.
The objective of this cross-sectional study (n= 16,806) was to estimate usual intakes and the …

Home food environment in relation to children's diet quality and weight status

SC Couch, K Glanz, C Zhou, JF Sallis… - Journal of the Academy of …, 2014 - Elsevier
The objective of this cohort study was to explore relationships among the home food
environment (HFE), child/parent characteristics, diet quality, and measured weight status …

Added sugars intake across the distribution of US children and adult consumers: 1977-2012

ES Powell, LP Smith-Taillie, BM Popkin - … of the Academy of Nutrition and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Public health organizations in the United States have recently increased focus
on reducing population consumption of added sugars. Objective The objective of this study …

Long waves of consumption or a unique social generation? Exploring recent declines in youth drinking

L Kraus, R Room, M Livingston, A Pennay… - Addiction Research & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Background: There is growing evidence for recent declines in adolescent alcohol use in the
Western world. While these changes have been subject to scientific debate, the reasons for …

[HTML][HTML] Dietary quality of the US child and adolescent population: trends from 1999 to 2012 and associations with the use of federal nutrition assistance programs

X Gu, KL Tucker - The American journal of clinical nutrition, 2017 - Elsevier
Background: The state of the economy, changes in federal food assistance programs, and
policies related to nutrition and the food supply in the United States may influence dietary …