Consumption of fast food, which have high energy densities and glycemic loads, and
expose customers to excessive portion sizes, may be greatly contributing to and escalating …

This review critically summarizes the literature on neighborhood determinants of obesity and
proposes a conceptual framework to guide future inquiry. Thirty-seven studies met all …

Background—The role of diet in the origin of metabolic syndrome (MetSyn) is not well
understood; thus, we sought to evaluate the relationship between incident MetSyn and …

OBJECTIVE. We sought to document increases in caloric contributions from sugar-
sweetened beverages and 100% fruit juice among US youth during 1988–2004. PATIENTS …

We have examined the relationship between artificially sweetened beverage (ASB)
consumption and long‐term weight gain in the San Antonio Heart Study. From 1979 to 1988 …

El secretario de Salud convocó al Comité de Expertos para la elaboración de las"
Recomendaciones sobre el consumo de bebidas para la población mexicana"; la finalidad …

The home food environment can be conceptualized as overlapping interactive domains
composed of built and natural, sociocultural, political and economic, micro-level and macro …

Background Type 2 diabetes mellitus is an increasingly serious health problem among
African American women. Consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks was associated with an …

Little is understood about the patterns and trends in adolescent and adult beverage intake in
Mexico or most other countries. Here, we used nationally representative dietary intake …

The epidemic of obesity has become a major public health problem. Common-form obesity
is underpinned by both environmental and genetic factors. Epidemiological studies have …