A recent 2014 study, for example, found a significant relationship
between added sugar consumption and increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease.
Media Release 19 October 2012 Australian Beverages Council responds to latest study on added sugars intake for young Australians The Australian Beverages Council, representing the Australian non-alcoholic beverage industry, has responded to the recent study results announced at the Australian and New Zealand Obesity Society (ANZOS) conference in Auckland yesterday regarding
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By the way, some of you may remember my recent Civil Eats piece on the shocking levels of sugar in many school breakfasts, which cited as one cause the lack of any official dietary guidance
on added sugar consumption.
The Australian Beverages Council, representing the Australian non-alcoholic beverage industry, has responded to the recent study results announced at the Australian and New Zealand Obesity Society (ANZOS) conference in Auckland yesterday
regarding added sugar consumption in young Australians.
In response to «Human - relevant levels of
added sugar consumption increase female mortality and lower male fitness in mice,» a paper published today in the journal Nature Communications, the American Beverage Association issued the following statement:
Much of that increase comes from higher intake of sugar - sweetened beverages, which constitute approximately one - third of the
total added sugar consumption in the American diet.
Quanhe Yang, Ph.D., of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, and colleagues used national health survey data to
examine added sugar consumption as a percentage of daily calories and to estimate association between consumption and CVD.
They also recommend that custom intervention to
decrease added sugar consumption be conducted for both non-cancer individuals and cancer survivors in communities and the medical care system.
The authors» summary of the available evidence is very specific: «This analysis of apparent consumption, national dietary surveys and food [beverage] industry data indicates a consistent and substantial decline in total refined or
added sugar consumption by Australians over the past 30 years [1980 to 2010]» (my bolding; p. 499 of PDF).
In a new study published in Open Heart, a publication of the British Medical Journal, researchers argue that dietary guidelines should put the spotlight on
reducing added sugar consumption — rather than salt — in order to really slash hypertension, heart disease and stroke rates.
«Our concerns about the funding source and methods of the current review preclude us from accepting its conclusion that recommendations to
limit added sugar consumption to less than 10 % of calories are not trustworthy,» writes Dr. Dean Schillinger, a professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) in a corresponding editorial in the same journal.
In yesterday's ICYMI food news round - up, I told you about the release of the new 2015 - 20 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which contain for the first time official guidance
on added sugar consumption (no more than 10 % of daily calories.)
No socioeconomic gradient in
added sugars consumption was observed for children.
The food and beverage industry frequently sponsors research on the health effects of
added sugars consumption and has produced reviews for policy purposes.
The LSU Health New Orleans translational research team, which also included Hui - Yi Lin, PhD, Associate Professor, Lauren Griffiths, Research Associate, and Kristin Cornwell, Public Health graduate student, suggests that intervention programs to reduce sugar - sweetened beverage or
added sugar consumption should primarily focus on lower socio - economic status young males, both non-cancer and cancer survivors, as well as cervical cancer survivors.
Week one involves becoming aware of
your added sugar consumption and removing, replacing, or reducing the most obvious insults.
In other words, all
this added sugar consumption makes it harder for Americans to get and stay healthy.
The American Heart Association has released new recommendations for
added sugar consumption.
Specifically, the Subcommittee wanted to determine if there was any evidence that
added sugar consumption was associated with decreased micronutrient intake or increased weight.